Scientific American recently covered research that colleagues and I conducted on everyday Americans’ abortion attitudes, with special attention to new article in Science Advances I co-authored with Kendra Hutchens and Sarah Cowan. This piece explores perceptions Americans hold of who gets abortions and why (what we call the “abortion imaginary”). As both articles explain, perceptions don’t always match reality, carrying consequences for how we imagine and opine about abortion in the U.S.