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01 February, 2012

The prescription of oral contraceptives and its relation to the incidence of Chlamydia and abortion in Sweden 1997

2012. Scandinavian Journal of Public Health February 40: 85-91.

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12 March, 2021

Why the immorality of consuming alcohol during pregnancy cannot tell us that abortion is immoral: A reply to Hendricks

in: BioethicsAbstractRecently, Perry Hendricks argued that abortion is immoral even if the fetus is not a person. He did so by arguing that causing a future child to suffer from fetal alcohol syndrome

Type of publication: Journal articles | Lundgren, Björn
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26 October, 2013

Democratic revolutions as institutional innovation diffusion: Rapid adoption and survival of democracy

Technological Forecasting and Social Change, Volume 80, Issue 8, October 2013, Pp. 1546–1556 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.techfore.2013.02.002 Abstract Recent ‘democratic revolutions’ in Islamic countries

Type of publication: Journal articles | Fredrik Jansson, Patrik Lindenfors, Mikael Sandberg
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28 April, 2025

Deep moral disagreements and defective contexts

Synthese Abstract The key characteristic of deep disagreements is that any attempt to resolve them just reveals new points of disagreement that stem from underlying commitments. Many moral disagreementsInformal LogicSemantics and Pragmatics

Type of publication: Journal articles | Björkholm, Stina
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22 August, 2019

74 predictions on moral and political development

How come today’s conservatives are more liberal than yesterday’s liberals? Why has the public opinion in large parts of the world shifted so rapidly in favor of gay and lesbian rights, but been virtua

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10 April, 2017

A future without Down syndrome? Ethical reflections on the development of technology

Have you used prenatal testing to determine if the fetus you or your partner is carrying has Down’s syndrome? If the answer is yes, you are not alone. The interest in genetic screening for Down’s synd

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29 September, 2020

What do immigrants know about Sweden?

The degree of trust in a country has proven to be important for many reasons. The population in the Nordic countries has far higher levels of trust than the rest of the world. Studies show that migran

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07 May, 2025

Moral Disagreement and the Question Under Discussion

Journal of Ethics & Social Philosophy Abstract If the extension of a moral expression varies depending on the context of utterance, as contextualism maintains, then two speakers who embrace differen

Type of publication: Journal articles | Björkholm, Stina
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02 December, 2025

Healthcare providers’ perceptions of immigrant patients’ values about sexual and reproductive rights: a cross-sectional comparison with immigrants’ self-reported values

Reproductive Health Abstract When people move to a new country, they often face challenges in getting the healthcare they need, especially when doctors or nurses make assumptions about their cultural or

Type of publication: Journal articles | Tibajev, Andrey , & Birgitta Essén Vartanova, Irina , & Birgitta Essén Strimling, Pontus , & Birgitta Essén
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12 April, 2022

The triumph of secular individualism – A new mathematical model offers clear-cut answers to how morals will change over time

Irina Vartanova, Kimmo Eriksson and Pontus Strimling at the Institute for Futures Studies have created a model to predict changes in moral opinion. –Ourmodel did considerably better than all known methPontus Strimling.

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