Crossing Borders of Choice: Navigating the Divergence of Abortion between the United States and Canada
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This essay delves into the divergence in abortion policies in the United States and Canada by analyzing the interplay of the rise of right-wing political ideologies, the role of the media, and the level of decentralization in shaping political and societal perspectives. In the United States, the resurgence of conservative politics, amplified by media polarization, has led to a decentralized approach, with states regaining control over abortion regulations after the overturning of Roe v. Wade. Contrastingly, Canada has maintained a more centralized position, bolstering reproductive rights and accessibility to abortion services. While media narratives and political ideologies play significant roles in both nations, the key factor driving this divergence is the level of decentralization in the two countries. This paper explores the pivotal role of decentralization in shaping the disparate trajectories of abortion policies between the United States and Canada.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.005 | 0.013 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.003 | 0.005 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.030 | 0.026 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.011 | 0.003 |
| Open science | 0.002 | 0.009 |
| Research integrity | 0.002 | 0.005 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.003 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.
Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
score_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from itClassification
machine, unvalidatedMachine predicted; a candidate call from one source (direct Gemma or distilled Codex), not a consensus.
How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".