0796.1	Assessment
Research Question (Clear, unambiguous)	The description of the research question is somewhat unclear, but it appears to be a comparison between United States and China focused on the relationships between people's demographic characteristics and their opinions about abortion.  This would seem to be a straightforward project.
Relevant Literature	The articles mentioned in the project outline are a reasonable start on a literature review.
Causal Interpretations (clear, all parts defined, mechanisms, controls, plausible)	The independent variables listed are "education level, religious practice, marital status, income, and how many children they already had."  These are an okay start, but we would like to see a more reasoned approach about what circumstances influence abortion attitudes and which we might expect to differ between the Chinese and Americans.  Note that part of such an analysis could be to decompose the population into meaningful and comparable subgroups (like rural vs. urban) and then to compare the determination of abortion attitudes within those categories.   This may make more sense that including those population characteristics as variables in an equation.
Data (variables, sample, comparison)	The data seem appropriate.
Research Value	Probably, the value of the research would depend not only on the similarities and differences, but on how well one could identify the differences and similarities of national context that make sense of the comparison of abortion opinions.
Overall	This appears to be a reasonable project.