“Your Bodies… Your Choices?”: Ideologies and Motivations That Drive Men's Support for Abortion and Feminist Protests in Poland and the USA Estevan-Reina, Lucía Lemus Martín, Soledad De Górska, Paulina Potoczek, Anna Śmieja-Nęcka, Magdalena Gurbisz, Dominika Bukowsky, Marcin Abortion Benevolent sexism Egalitarian motivation Feminism Paternalistic motivation Politicised identities Antiabortionists are becoming a prominent conservative force, as illustrated by the recent rulings of the Polish Constitutional Tribunal and the USA Supreme Court. However, global resistance in favor of abortion rights persists, with an increasing number of men joining the protests. In three studies (total N=937 men), we analysed ideological and motivational factors predicting men's support of abortion protests. Study 1 examined the role of anti-restrictions politicised identification and sexism in explaining men's support for pro-abortion protests in Poland longitudinally and cross-sectionally. Studies 2 and 3 investigated the influence of motivations (egalitarian and paternalistic) on men's intentions to participate in pro-abortion and feminist collective actions, in Poland (Study 2) and the USA (Study 3). Our findings indicate that politicised identities lead men to support collective action for women's rights, both directly and indirectly through egalitarian motives (in cross-sectional data). The role of benevolent sexism is more complex; while it discourages long-term support for abortion protests, it can indirectly lead men to support collective action for women's rights through paternalistic motivation. We reflect on whether mechanisms that perpetuate gender power imbalances can somehow be beneficial for social change, at least in the short run. 2025-09-11T09:53:51Z 2025-09-11T09:53:51Z 2025-07-05 journal article Estevan-Reina, L., S. de Lemus, P. Górska, et al. 2025. “ “Your Bodies… Your Choices?”: Ideologies and Motivations That Drive Men's Support for Abortion and Feminist Protests in Poland and the USA.” Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology 35, no. 5: e70153. https://doi.org/10.1002/casp.70153 https://hdl.handle.net/10481/106248 10.1002/casp.70153 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.