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March 23, 2023 |
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Dr. Tricia Bruce is a sociologist from Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion in Society. Bruce along with colleagues recently published a paper studying discordant benevolence as it relates to attitudes about abortion in America. What happens when a request for help from friends or family members invokes conflicting values? Bruce found many are willing to help others who make decisions that they themselves might not. But most striking, she shares how the absence of public spaces and ways to gather and wrestle with beliefs has a silencing effect and is likely not to produce the dramatic shift in public opinion following the Supreme Court’s landmark decision in the Dobbs case. Bruce shares insights after presenting at the 2023 Religion Newswriters Association conference in Bethesda, Maryland.
Tricia C. Bruce, Ph.D. Sociologist and award-winning author. Affiliate of the University of Notre Dame’s Center for the Study of Religion and Society and adjunct research associate professor of sociology with the University of Texas at San Antonio.
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