Life Choices, 1990

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RMURDER 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. B. Human life begins at conception, therefore, abortion is murder.   1) Very convincing   2) Fairly convincing   3) Not very convincing   4) Not at all convincing

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Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very convincing	899	43.3%	43.3%	-.99
Fairly convincing	343	16.5%	59.8%	-.14
Not very convincing	425	20.5%	80.3%	.7
Not at all convincing	410	19.7%	100%	1.55

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	43.3% 172	38.4% 276	44.1% 180	46.6% 184	55.8% 82	43.3% 894
Fairly convincing	17.6% 70	19.1% 137	15.0% 61	13.7% 54	13.6% 20	16.6% 342
Not very convincing	20.2% 80	21.1% 152	20.3% 83	21.3% 84	16.3% 24	20.5% 423
Not at all convincing	18.9% 75	21.4% 154	20.6% 84	18.5% 73	14.3% 21	19.7% 407
TOTAL	100.0% 397	100.0% 719	100.0% 408	100.0% 395	100.0% 147	2066

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very convincing	25.5% 90	30.4% 199	52.0% 401	73.2% 202	43.4% 892
Fairly convincing	13.3% 47	14.1% 92	20.2% 156	14.5% 40	16.3% 335
Not very convincing	24.9% 88	28.9% 189	16.5% 127	5.8% 16	20.4% 420
Not at all convincing	36.3% 128	26.6% 174	11.3% 87	6.5% 18	19.8% 407
TOTAL	100.0% 353	100.0% 654	100.0% 771	100.0% 276	2054

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very convincing	60.4% 223	47.4% 323	42.2% 237	24.6% 112	43.3% 895
Fairly convincing	17.6% 65	18.3% 125	14.1% 79	16.0% 73	16.5% 342
Not very convincing	13.0% 48	20.7% 141	21.9% 123	24.4% 111	20.5% 423
Not at all convincing	8.9% 33	13.6% 93	21.9% 123	34.9% 159	19.7% 408
TOTAL	100.0% 369	100.0% 682	100.0% 562	100.0% 455	2068

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very convincing	36.6% 196	43.5% 242	55.3% 354	30.9% 107	43.3% 899
Fairly convincing	17.9% 96	15.8% 88	17.2% 110	14.2% 49	16.5% 343
Not very convincing	23.2% 124	20.9% 116	16.3% 104	23.4% 81	20.5% 425
Not at all convincing	22.2% 119	19.8% 110	11.3% 72	31.5% 109	19.7% 410
TOTAL	100.0% 535	100.0% 556	100.0% 640	100.0% 346	2077

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very convincing	38.8% 387	47.7% 497	43.4% 884
Fairly convincing	16.5% 165	16.6% 173	16.6% 338
Not very convincing	24.0% 239	16.9% 176	20.4% 415
Not at all convincing	20.7% 206	18.8% 196	19.7% 402
TOTAL	100.0% 997	100.0% 1042	2039

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very convincing	44.4% 494	48.9% 310	11.3% 6	58.9% 53	45.7% 863
Fairly convincing	16.3% 181	19.7% 125	5.7% 3	6.7% 6	16.7% 315
Not very convincing	20.9% 232	19.1% 121	24.5% 13	15.6% 14	20.1% 380
Not at all convincing	18.4% 205	12.3% 78	58.5% 31	18.9% 17	17.5% 331
TOTAL	100.0% 1112	100.0% 634	100.0% 53	100.0% 90	1889