Life Choices, 1990

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RDISREG 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. E. Abortion promotes a general disregard for the value of human life.   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	822	39.2%	39.2%	-1.02
Fairly convincing	533	25.4%	64.7%	-.1
Not very convincing	435	20.8%	85.4%	.83
Not at all convincing	305	14.6%	100%	1.75

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	36.1% 145	35.5% 256	41.9% 170	43.2% 177	50.0% 72	39.3% 820
Fairly convincing	29.4% 118	24.8% 179	24.4% 99	24.6% 101	22.2% 32	25.4% 529
Not very convincing	21.1% 85	22.4% 162	20.4% 83	19.3% 79	17.4% 25	20.8% 434
Not at all convincing	13.4% 54	17.3% 125	13.3% 54	12.9% 53	10.4% 15	14.4% 301
TOTAL	100.0% 402	100.0% 722	100.0% 406	100.0% 410	100.0% 144	2084

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very convincing	23.6% 85	27.4% 181	46.6% 362	69.2% 189	39.4% 817
Fairly convincing	20.3% 73	26.0% 172	29.2% 227	18.3% 50	25.2% 522
Not very convincing	28.6% 103	28.9% 191	15.3% 119	6.6% 18	20.8% 431
Not at all convincing	27.5% 99	17.7% 117	8.9% 69	5.9% 16	14.5% 301
TOTAL	100.0% 360	100.0% 661	100.0% 777	100.0% 273	2071

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very convincing	50.5% 186	45.5% 312	35.5% 204	24.8% 114	39.1% 816
Fairly convincing	31.0% 114	25.1% 172	25.1% 144	22.4% 103	25.6% 533
Not very convincing	12.2% 45	17.7% 121	22.1% 127	30.5% 140	20.8% 433
Not at all convincing	6.3% 23	11.7% 80	17.2% 99	22.2% 102	14.6% 304
TOTAL	100.0% 368	100.0% 685	100.0% 574	100.0% 459	2086

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very convincing	37.5% 203	34.9% 196	47.7% 306	33.4% 117	39.2% 822
Fairly convincing	26.0% 141	26.7% 150	28.2% 181	17.4% 61	25.4% 533
Not very convincing	18.8% 102	25.6% 144	14.5% 93	27.4% 96	20.8% 435
Not at all convincing	17.7% 96	12.8% 72	9.5% 61	21.7% 76	14.6% 305
TOTAL	100.0% 542	100.0% 562	100.0% 641	100.0% 350	2095

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very convincing	36.2% 367	41.9% 437	39.1% 804
Fairly convincing	26.8% 271	24.4% 255	25.6% 526
Not very convincing	22.7% 230	19.0% 198	20.8% 428
Not at all convincing	14.3% 145	14.7% 153	14.5% 298
TOTAL	100.0% 1013	100.0% 1043	2056

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very convincing	39.3% 441	44.7% 284	7.5% 4	55.6% 50	41.0% 779
Fairly convincing	26.3% 295	26.9% 171	22.6% 12	18.9% 17	26.0% 495
Not very convincing	21.4% 240	17.0% 108	28.3% 15	18.9% 17	20.0% 380
Not at all convincing	13.0% 146	11.5% 73	41.5% 22	6.7% 6	13.0% 247
TOTAL	100.0% 1122	100.0% 636	100.0% 53	100.0% 90	1901