Cross-nationally, attitudes toward abortion laws and laws affecting the lesbian, gay, and bisexual (LGB) community covary in how progressive they are; the more legal rights one believes the LGB community should have, the more legal access to abortion one believes women should have. Based on these findings, we test the coexistence of the progressiveness of actual laws at a cross-national level of analysis. We also explore what could be some of the dominant predictors of the covariance of these laws, which include (1) fertility demands that work against individual freedoms to behave in ways counterproductive to fertility, and (2) religiosity, which can affect cultural prohibitions of both abortion and same-sex sexual activity, based on interpretations of scripture. We propose a third perspective, (3) gender equality, which could link to both abortion laws and LGB laws. Furthermore, we propose that gender equality may mediate how fertility demands and religiosity influence these laws, given knowledge that fertility demands and religiosity both assume traditional roles for women. Using archival data (N = 194 countries) obtained through publicly available reports, we analyzed the relationship between laws concerning abortion and laws concerning LGB rights and predicted their covariance using variables representing fertility-freedom, religiosity, and gender equality. The results show that gender equality is a robust predictor of the abortion-LGB link cross-nationally, and helps mediate the effects of the fertility-freedom and religiosity models. These data contribute to an understanding of the centrality of gender equality as an influential political factor for both sexual and reproductive rights.

在跨国界，对堕胎法和影响女同性恋、男同性恋和双性恋 (LGB) 社区的法律的态度因进步程度而异；人们认为 LGB 社区应该拥有的合法权利越多，人们认为女性应该拥有的合法堕胎机会就越多。基于这些发现，我们检验了实际规律的进步性并存在跨国分析层面。我们还探讨了哪些可能是这些法律协方差的主要预测因素，其中包括（1）生育要求不利于个人自由以与生育相反的方式行事，以及（2）宗教信仰，这可能会影响文化禁止根据对圣经的解释，堕胎和同性性行为。我们提出了第三种观点，（3）性别平等，它可以与堕胎法和 LGB 法联系起来。此外，鉴于生育需求和宗教信仰都为女性承担传统角色，我们认为性别平等可能会调节生育需求和宗教信仰如何影响这些法律。使用档案数据（N = 194 个国家）通过公开报告获得，我们分析了有关堕胎的法律与有关 LGB 权利的法律之间的关系，并使用代表生育自由、宗教信仰和性别平等的变量预测了它们的协方差。结果表明，性别平等是跨国堕胎与 LGB 联系的有力预测因素，并有助于调节生育自由和宗教信仰模型的影响。这些数据有助于理解性别平等作为性权利和生殖权利的一个有影响力的政治因素的中心地位。