How does political culture affect abortion accessibility?: a study of abortion pill access in Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island
Bibliographic record
Abstract
This thesis asks how political culture impacts accessibility to the abortion pill (Mifegymiso) in Canada by focusing on two case studies, Nova Scotia and Prince Edward Island. Abortions have been decriminalized since the 1980s, yet women in different provinces continue to struggle to acquire access to this legal right and basic autonomy over their own bodies. In Prince Edward Island (PEI), women had a distinct problem with access until very recently, having to request time off and find a referral in order to travel to another province to get access to an abortion. This lack of access can be attributed in large part to the political culture of the province. This thesis takes a most similar cases approach. These two provinces share many commonalities that are useful for this study and have connections in terms of abortion access, as Nova Scotia has frequently provided women from PEI with abortions. For the period of this study, both provinces had the same provincial party in power, and despite their different political culture in the past, their cultural difference gap has since diminished and is no longer evident on this divisive topic and have quite similar policies. By focusing on the years following the decriminalization of abortion, particularly 2015 onward (when the abortion pill was legalized in Canada), this thesis argues that political culture is an important explanatory variable for understanding differences in the abortion policies in these two provinces.
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How this classification was reachedexpand
Full frame distilled prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.
Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Open science | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.000 | 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 teacher head, 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".