Life Choices, 1990

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RPROTECT I am going to read you several reasons that people have given for limiting legal access to abortion. For each of these reasons I want you to tell me whether it is very convincing, fairly convincing, not very convincing, or not at all convincing, as a reason for limiting access to abortion. A. All human life, including that of the unborn, should be protected.   1) Very convincing   2) Fairly convincing   3) Not very convincing   4) Not at all convincing

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very convincing	1056	50.3%	50.3%	-.84
Fairly convincing	576	27.5%	77.8%	.23
Not very convincing	325	15.5%	93.3%	1.29
Not at all convincing	141	6.7%	100%	2.36

Variable Comparisons

Age Church attendance Education Region Gender Religion

Age (I-AGE)

	18-29 years old	30-44 years old	45-59 years old	60-74 years old	75 years and older	TOTAL
Very convincing	49.6% 198	48.3% 351	50.9% 207	50.5% 206	60.5% 89	50.4% 1051
Fairly convincing	28.1% 112	29.3% 213	25.3% 103	28.2% 115	21.8% 32	27.6% 575
Not very convincing	16.5% 66	16.1% 117	16.2% 66	13.2% 54	12.9% 19	15.4% 322
Not at all convincing	5.8% 23	6.2% 45	7.6% 31	8.1% 33	4.8% 7	6.7% 139
TOTAL	100.0% 399	100.0% 726	100.0% 407	100.0% 408	100.0% 147	2087

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very convincing	33.2% 118	39.5% 260	58.6% 457	75.7% 212	50.5% 1047
Fairly convincing	27.6% 98	31.9% 210	27.7% 216	15.7% 44	27.4% 568
Not very convincing	27.3% 97	20.5% 135	9.6% 75	4.6% 13	15.4% 320
Not at all convincing	11.8% 42	8.2% 54	4.1% 32	3.9% 11	6.7% 139
TOTAL	100.0% 355	100.0% 659	100.0% 780	100.0% 280	2074

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very convincing	65.2% 244	55.2% 381	48.3% 276	33.0% 150	50.3% 1051
Fairly convincing	23.3% 87	28.1% 194	27.1% 155	30.4% 138	27.5% 574
Not very convincing	7.5% 28	12.0% 83	17.9% 102	24.4% 111	15.5% 324
Not at all convincing	4.0% 15	4.6% 32	6.7% 38	12.1% 55	6.7% 140
TOTAL	100.0% 374	100.0% 690	100.0% 571	100.0% 454	2089

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very convincing	46.4% 251	48.5% 274	61.6% 397	38.6% 134	50.3% 1056
Fairly convincing	30.9% 167	26.5% 150	25.6% 165	27.1% 94	27.5% 576
Not very convincing	15.2% 82	16.6% 94	9.5% 61	25.4% 88	15.5% 325
Not at all convincing	7.6% 41	8.3% 47	3.4% 22	8.9% 31	6.7% 141
TOTAL	100.0% 541	100.0% 565	100.0% 645	100.0% 347	2098

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very convincing	47.6% 480	52.9% 556	50.3% 1036
Fairly convincing	29.2% 295	26.0% 273	27.6% 568
Not very convincing	16.6% 167	14.4% 151	15.4% 318
Not at all convincing	6.6% 67	6.8% 71	6.7% 138
TOTAL	100.0% 1009	100.0% 1051	2060

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very convincing	51.4% 579	57.1% 365	11.3% 6	60.0% 54	52.6% 1004
Fairly convincing	27.9% 314	27.9% 178	30.2% 16	22.2% 20	27.7% 528
Not very convincing	15.0% 169	10.5% 67	28.3% 15	13.3% 12	13.8% 263
Not at all convincing	5.7% 64	4.5% 29	30.2% 16	4.4% 4	5.9% 113
TOTAL	100.0% 1126	100.0% 639	100.0% 53	100.0% 90	1908