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The extent to which abortion attitudes are malleable, and can be shaped by experience, is under\u2010researched in the United Kingdom (UK).<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Methods<\/jats:title><jats:p>To address this gap, we conducted semi\u2010structured interviews with individuals with (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200912) and without (<jats:italic>N<\/jats:italic>\u2009=\u200916) abortion experience living in the United Kingdom, consisting of England, Scotland, Wales or Northern Ireland. Inductive thematic analysis was used to address the research question: How does experience and\/or contact with abortion shape attitudes towards abortion?<\/jats:p><\/jats:sec><jats:sec><jats:title>Results<\/jats:title><jats:p>The theme <jats:italic>From Abstract Idea to Reality<\/jats:italic> illustrates participants' understanding of how abortion attitudes are developed by contact with real, lived experiences of abortion\u2014someone's own and\/or their friends\u2019 or acquaintances\u2019 abortions. Participants were clear that proximity to abortion helped them, and others, to see abortion as tangible, personal, and sensory (\u201creality\u201d) as opposed to intangible, imagined, and conceptual (\u201cabstract\u201d). 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