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Life Choices, 1990

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RCOMPROM

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. K. Some limitations on abortion are justified because there has to be a compromise between a women's right to choose and the rights of her unborn 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	549	26.8%	26.8%	-1.23
Fairly convincing	769	37.6%	64.4%	-.23
Not very convincing	432	21.1%	85.6%	.77
Not at all convincing	295	14.4%	100%	1.77

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	26.4% 104	25.1% 177	30.9% 124	26.1% 103	27.7% 39	26.9% 547
Fairly convincing	39.3% 155	41.1% 290	34.4% 138	35.0% 138	31.9% 45	37.6% 766
Not very convincing	23.6% 93	19.3% 136	19.7% 79	23.1% 91	22.0% 31	21.1% 430
Not at all convincing	10.7% 42	14.6% 103	15.0% 60	15.7% 62	18.4% 26	14.4% 293
TOTAL	100.0% 394	100.0% 706	100.0% 401	100.0% 394	100.0% 141	2036

Church attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very convincing	20.4% 72	24.5% 158	29.2% 223	35.2% 92	27.0% 545
Fairly convincing	37.1% 131	42.9% 276	37.2% 284	24.1% 63	37.3% 754
Not very convincing	25.5% 90	21.0% 135	20.1% 153	19.9% 52	21.3% 430
Not at all convincing	17.0% 60	11.6% 75	13.5% 103	20.7% 54	14.4% 292
TOTAL	100.0% 353	100.0% 644	100.0% 763	100.0% 261	2021

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very convincing	30.4% 106	28.9% 194	26.2% 148	22.2% 100	26.9% 548
Fairly convincing	34.7% 121	39.3% 264	38.4% 217	36.8% 166	37.7% 768
Not very convincing	19.5% 68	18.9% 127	23.0% 130	22.8% 103	21.0% 428
Not at all convincing	15.5% 54	12.8% 86	12.4% 70	18.2% 82	14.3% 292
TOTAL	100.0% 349	100.0% 671	100.0% 565	100.0% 451	2036

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very convincing	26.5% 141	25.9% 142	31.9% 198	19.9% 68	26.8% 549
Fairly convincing	37.7% 201	38.8% 213	35.6% 221	39.2% 134	37.6% 769
Not very convincing	21.4% 114	19.3% 106	19.8% 123	26.0% 89	21.1% 432
Not at all convincing	14.4% 77	16.0% 88	12.7% 79	14.9% 51	14.4% 295
TOTAL	100.0% 533	100.0% 549	100.0% 621	100.0% 342	2045

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very convincing	25.9% 254	27.4% 281	26.7% 535
Fairly convincing	39.8% 391	35.7% 366	37.7% 757
Not very convincing	20.9% 205	21.3% 218	21.1% 423
Not at all convincing	13.4% 132	15.5% 159	14.5% 291
TOTAL	100.0% 982	100.0% 1024	2006

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very convincing	27.9% 303	30.0% 190	15.4% 8	23.0% 20	28.1% 521
Fairly convincing	37.6% 408	38.2% 242	36.5% 19	39.1% 34	37.9% 703
Not very convincing	20.1% 218	20.5% 130	17.3% 9	21.8% 19	20.2% 376
Not at all convincing	14.4% 156	11.2% 71	30.8% 16	16.1% 14	13.8% 257
TOTAL	100.0% 1085	100.0% 633	100.0% 52	100.0% 87	1857