Revitalization of religion in the shadow of the legacy of the liberal legislative regulations: Attitudes towards the abortion

U ovom tekstu se analiziraju stavovi ispitanika o zakonskom reguliranju pobačaja u Hrvatskoj, koje smo ukrštali s religijskom samoidentifikacijom i praksom te sociodemografskim obilježjima ispitanika. Na taj način smo željeli ukazati na eventualnu prisutnost razlika u stavovima o pobačaju i zagovaranju opcije života ili opcije izbora, s obzirom na navedene karakteristike ispitanika. Polazeći od pretpostavke utjecaja konteksta društvenih promjena s početka 90-ih na stavove ispitanika o pobačaju, te uz oslanjanje na neke teorijske koncepte i istraživanja o pobačaju, potvrdili smo sve tri hipoteze istraživanja. Skicirali smo neke procese koji su mogli utjecati na veće slaganje s opcijom izbora nego li s opcijom života kod ispitanika, pogotovo s obzirom na dominaciju katolika u društvu u kojem je Katolička crkva okrenuta »rnoralnoj obnovi", a ukazali smo i na svojevrsnu polarizaciju stavova vezanih uz zakonsku regulativu pobačaja kod oba tabora, kao i na sukob tradicionalnih i modernih vrijednosti.This paper analyses the attitudes of the respondents towards the legislative regulation of the abortion in Croatia. The attitudes are cross-tabulated with the religious self-identification and practice and sociodemographic characteristics of the respondents. In this way we wanted to point out a possible presence of differences in the attitudes towards the abortion and the advocacy of pro-life or pro-choice options, bearing in mind the above mentioned characteristics of the respondents. Starting from the assumption of the influence of the context of social changes at the beginning of 90s on the attitudes of the respondents towards the abortion, and by leaning on same theoretical concepts and researches on the abortion, all three hypotheses have been confirmed. We sketched some processes that might have influenced a greater concurrence with the pro-choice than with pro-life option, especially if we take into account that this society is dominated by the Catholic church and in which the Church has been turned towards the \u27moral restoration\u27. Also in the both camps it can be noticed a certain polarization of the attitudes when the legislative regulation on the abortion is in question, as well as the clash of traditional and modern values