Life Choices, 1990

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RGUILT 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. F. Abortion leaves women with a burden of guilt and emotional scars that are very difficult to heal.   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	838	40.5%	40.5%	-.98
Fairly convincing	669	32.4%	72.9%	.04
Not very convincing	362	17.5%	90.4%	1.06
Not at all convincing	198	9.6%	100%	2.08

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	40.2% 157	36.3% 261	43.1% 173	44.9% 180	44.4% 64	40.6% 835
Fairly convincing	32.0% 125	33.9% 244	31.2% 125	31.2% 125	31.9% 46	32.3% 665
Not very convincing	18.4% 72	19.4% 140	16.5% 66	15.7% 63	14.6% 21	17.6% 362
Not at all convincing	9.5% 37	10.4% 75	9.2% 37	8.2% 33	9.0% 13	9.5% 195
TOTAL	100.0% 391	100.0% 720	100.0% 401	100.0% 401	100.0% 144	2057

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very convincing	24.4% 86	32.7% 210	44.4% 344	69.5% 191	40.7% 831
Fairly convincing	28.4% 100	32.2% 207	38.8% 300	18.9% 52	32.2% 659
Not very convincing	25.9% 91	24.0% 154	12.1% 94	6.5% 18	17.5% 357
Not at all convincing	21.3% 75	11.2% 72	4.7% 36	5.1% 14	9.6% 197
TOTAL	100.0% 352	100.0% 643	100.0% 774	100.0% 275	2044

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very convincing	57.7% 211	45.5% 310	36.6% 206	23.4% 105	40.4% 832
Fairly convincing	27.0% 99	32.3% 220	33.0% 186	36.4% 163	32.5% 668
Not very convincing	10.4% 38	14.2% 97	19.7% 111	25.7% 115	17.5% 361
Not at all convincing	4.9% 18	7.9% 54	10.7% 60	14.5% 65	9.6% 197
TOTAL	100.0% 366	100.0% 681	100.0% 563	100.0% 448	2058

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very convincing	40.0% 215	36.5% 202	50.6% 324	28.8% 97	40.5% 838
Fairly convincing	33.3% 179	32.7% 181	31.4% 201	32.0% 108	32.4% 669
Not very convincing	17.3% 93	22.1% 122	12.3% 79	20.2% 68	17.5% 362
Not at all convincing	9.3% 50	8.7% 48	5.6% 36	19.0% 64	9.6% 198
TOTAL	100.0% 537	100.0% 553	100.0% 640	100.0% 337	2067

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very convincing	37.9% 374	42.8% 446	40.4% 820
Fairly convincing	33.9% 334	31.2% 325	32.5% 659
Not very convincing	19.2% 189	15.9% 166	17.5% 355
Not at all convincing	9.0% 89	10.1% 105	9.6% 194
TOTAL	100.0% 986	100.0% 1042	2028

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very convincing	42.0% 464	44.0% 279	20.0% 10	43.3% 39	42.1% 792
Fairly convincing	33.1% 366	34.5% 219	24.0% 12	30.0% 27	33.2% 624
Not very convincing	16.6% 184	14.7% 93	22.0% 11	18.9% 17	16.2% 305
Not at all convincing	8.3% 92	6.8% 43	34.0% 17	7.8% 7	8.5% 159
TOTAL	100.0% 1106	100.0% 634	100.0% 50	100.0% 90	1880