Life Choices, 1990

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RLESPAIN 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. G. Adoption would be a less emotionally painful option for most women than abortion.   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	674	32.8%	32.8%	-1.13
Fairly convincing	659	32.1%	64.9%	-.15
Not very convincing	456	22.2%	87.1%	.83
Not at all convincing	264	12.9%	100%	1.81

Variable Comparisons

Age Worship 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	31.7% 124	30.5% 216	33.1% 133	35.4% 140	40.7% 59	32.9% 672
Fairly convincing	30.9% 121	31.5% 223	31.1% 125	34.1% 135	35.2% 51	32.1% 655
Not very convincing	22.8% 89	23.4% 166	23.9% 96	21.0% 83	13.1% 19	22.2% 453
Not at all convincing	14.6% 57	14.5% 103	11.9% 48	9.6% 38	11.0% 16	12.8% 262
TOTAL	100.0% 391	100.0% 708	100.0% 402	100.0% 396	100.0% 145	2042

Worship attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very convincing	25.3% 88	23.0% 148	38.1% 292	49.8% 136	32.7% 664
Fairly convincing	25.6% 89	34.5% 222	35.2% 270	26.0% 71	32.1% 652
Not very convincing	27.9% 97	27.8% 179	18.8% 144	11.7% 32	22.3% 452
Not at all convincing	21.3% 74	14.6% 94	7.8% 60	12.5% 34	12.9% 262
TOTAL	100.0% 348	100.0% 643	100.0% 766	100.0% 273	2030

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very convincing	47.8% 172	36.8% 249	27.7% 156	21.4% 95	32.9% 672
Fairly convincing	30.8% 111	33.8% 229	33.2% 187	28.7% 127	32.0% 654
Not very convincing	12.2% 44	20.5% 139	23.8% 134	31.2% 138	22.3% 455
Not at all convincing	9.2% 33	8.9% 60	15.4% 87	18.7% 83	12.9% 263
TOTAL	100.0% 360	100.0% 677	100.0% 564	100.0% 443	2044

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very convincing	27.3% 145	31.1% 172	41.8% 261	27.9% 96	32.8% 674
Fairly convincing	33.7% 179	34.2% 189	31.0% 194	28.2% 97	32.1% 659
Not very convincing	24.9% 132	23.0% 127	17.9% 112	24.7% 85	22.2% 456
Not at all convincing	14.1% 75	11.8% 65	9.3% 58	19.2% 66	12.9% 264
TOTAL	100.0% 531	100.0% 553	100.0% 625	100.0% 344	2053

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very convincing	29.9% 293	35.4% 366	32.7% 659
Fairly convincing	36.7% 360	27.9% 289	32.2% 649
Not very convincing	24.3% 238	20.3% 210	22.2% 448
Not at all convincing	9.1% 89	16.3% 169	12.8% 258
TOTAL	100.0% 980	100.0% 1034	2014

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very convincing	34.2% 375	34.4% 217	12.0% 6	43.2% 38	34.1% 636
Fairly convincing	32.8% 360	35.2% 222	20.0% 10	28.4% 25	33.1% 617
Not very convincing	21.2% 233	20.0% 126	36.0% 18	20.5% 18	21.2% 395
Not at all convincing	11.8% 129	10.5% 66	32.0% 16	8.0% 7	11.7% 218
TOTAL	100.0% 1097	100.0% 631	100.0% 50	100.0% 88	1866