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Life Choices, 1990

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RADVANTG

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. D. Abortion hurts women by enabling men to take advantage of them, knowing that abortion is a way out of their responsibility to care for the mother and child.

	1) Very convincing
	2) Fairly convincing
	3) Not very convincing
	4) Not at all convincing

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very convincing	574	27.6%	27.6%	-1.3
Fairly convincing	449	21.6%	49.3%	-.42
Not very convincing	544	26.2%	75.5%	.46
Not at all convincing	509	24.5%	100%	1.34

Variable Comparisons

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	27.8% 110	25.3% 182	26.0% 106	31.8% 128	31.9% 45	27.7% 571
Fairly convincing	23.5% 93	18.6% 134	24.3% 99	18.4% 74	33.3% 47	21.6% 447
Not very convincing	23.0% 91	28.6% 206	25.6% 104	29.1% 117	16.3% 23	26.2% 541
Not at all convincing	25.6% 101	27.5% 198	24.1% 98	20.6% 83	18.4% 26	24.5% 506
TOTAL	100.0% 395	100.0% 720	100.0% 407	100.0% 402	100.0% 141	2065

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very convincing	20.1% 71	20.2% 133	31.2% 241	45.9% 124	27.7% 569
Fairly convincing	15.6% 55	20.8% 137	25.8% 199	18.5% 50	21.5% 441
Not very convincing	25.8% 91	29.8% 196	25.3% 195	20.4% 55	26.2% 537
Not at all convincing	38.5% 136	29.2% 192	17.7% 137	15.2% 41	24.6% 506
TOTAL	100.0% 353	100.0% 658	100.0% 772	100.0% 270	2053

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very convincing	41.3% 150	33.6% 229	22.1% 126	14.3% 65	27.6% 570
Fairly convincing	24.2% 88	23.9% 163	21.4% 122	16.5% 75	21.7% 448
Not very convincing	20.1% 73	23.6% 161	29.0% 165	31.3% 142	26.2% 541
Not at all convincing	14.3% 52	18.8% 128	27.4% 156	37.9% 172	24.6% 508
TOTAL	100.0% 363	100.0% 681	100.0% 569	100.0% 454	2067

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very convincing	27.8% 151	22.8% 127	35.8% 228	20.1% 68	27.6% 574
Fairly convincing	20.6% 112	22.6% 126	23.9% 152	17.5% 59	21.6% 449
Not very convincing	25.7% 140	28.2% 157	23.9% 152	28.1% 95	26.2% 544
Not at all convincing	25.9% 141	26.4% 147	16.5% 105	34.3% 116	24.5% 509
TOTAL	100.0% 544	100.0% 557	100.0% 637	100.0% 338	2076

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very convincing	25.9% 259	29.4% 305	27.7% 564
Fairly convincing	22.2% 222	21.3% 221	21.7% 443
Not very convincing	27.8% 278	24.8% 258	26.3% 536
Not at all convincing	24.0% 240	24.5% 255	24.3% 495
TOTAL	100.0% 999	100.0% 1039	2038

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very convincing	28.1% 311	30.4% 194	9.3% 5	29.2% 26	28.4% 536
Fairly convincing	21.6% 239	24.8% 158	13.0% 7	14.6% 13	22.1% 417
Not very convincing	26.8% 297	26.8% 171	29.6% 16	27.0% 24	26.9% 508
Not at all convincing	23.5% 260	18.0% 115	48.1% 26	29.2% 26	22.6% 427
TOTAL	100.0% 1107	100.0% 638	100.0% 54	100.0% 89	1888