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Roe v. Wade & Social Judgment Theory

Despite the 1973 Supreme Court case Roe v. Wade, affirming the constitutional right of women to an abortion for at least the first six months of pregnancy, the social and political culture in the United States has in effect been at war: in the courts, on the streets, and in a variety of public policy venues. Throughout that period, advocates for and against the right of abortion, pro-choice and anti-choice, respectively, have been engaged in debate on the issue of the morality of abortion versus women's right to elect to have an abortion. Further, abortion-related advocacy is not just an aspect of social-policy debate but is meant to be translated into political and social philosophy and praxis, entailing claims of moral authority and scientific understanding on legal realities. When Morgan says the "social recognition of fetuses, newborns, and young children is embedded within a wider social context" (1989, p. 28), she is claiming that the legal issue of where life begins and what role civil society has in asserting authority over the issue is a construction of social psychology, not of science or logic. To put it another way, the effectiveness of communication strategies and content is meant to have an impact on the practical experience of civil society. Therefore a clear picture of details of such construction is not only informative but useful as well.

The purpose of this research is to examine and explain a communication scenario in terms of social judgment theory. The plan of the research will be to describe the principal features of social judgment theory in general terms, then identify the perspectives from which judgments are being made and how they connect to the elements of a hypothetical communication scenario constructed around the politics of abortion, with a view toward evaluating how and whether social judgment theory is suited to explaining the structure of communication elaborated in the scenario.

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