Life Choices, 1990

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REASYWAY 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. I. While abortion is sometimes necessary, it is used too frequently as an easy way out.   1) Very convincing   2) Fairly convincing   3) Not very convincing   4) Not at all convincing

Pie Chart Bar Chart Cumulative Bar Chart

Category	Frequency	Percentage	Cumulative Percentage	Z-Score
Very convincing	914	43.6%	43.6%	-.93
Fairly convincing	678	32.3%	75.9%	.11
Not very convincing	326	15.5%	91.5%	1.16
Not at all convincing	179	8.5%	100%	2.2

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	44.6% 178	41.7% 301	45.0% 186	43.4% 177	47.3% 69	43.6% 911
Fairly convincing	32.6% 130	33.1% 239	30.3% 125	32.8% 134	31.5% 46	32.3% 674
Not very convincing	14.8% 59	15.8% 114	16.7% 69	16.4% 67	11.0% 16	15.6% 325
Not at all convincing	8.0% 32	9.4% 68	8.0% 33	7.4% 30	10.3% 15	8.5% 178
TOTAL	100.0% 399	100.0% 722	100.0% 413	100.0% 408	100.0% 146	2088

Worship attendance (I-ATTEND)

	Never	Once a month or less	Once a week or less	Several times a week	TOTAL
Very convincing	30.4% 109	36.7% 242	49.8% 387	60.5% 167	43.7% 905
Fairly convincing	32.1% 115	35.0% 231	32.9% 256	23.2% 64	32.2% 666
Not very convincing	24.6% 88	18.2% 120	11.5% 89	9.4% 26	15.6% 323
Not at all convincing	12.8% 46	10.2% 67	5.8% 45	6.9% 19	8.5% 177
TOTAL	100.0% 358	100.0% 660	100.0% 777	100.0% 276	2071

Education (I-EDUC)

	Less than high school	High school graduate	Some college/trade/technical school	College graduate	TOTAL
Very convincing	53.0% 196	49.4% 338	40.8% 236	31.1% 142	43.7% 912
Fairly convincing	30.0% 111	30.8% 211	34.4% 199	33.3% 152	32.2% 673
Not very convincing	11.4% 42	12.1% 83	16.3% 94	23.2% 106	15.6% 325
Not at all convincing	5.7% 21	7.6% 52	8.5% 49	12.3% 56	8.5% 178
TOTAL	100.0% 370	100.0% 684	100.0% 578	100.0% 456	2088

Region (I-REGION)

	East	Midwest	South	West	TOTAL
Very convincing	41.6% 227	42.2% 234	50.5% 326	36.3% 127	43.6% 914
Fairly convincing	35.3% 193	33.2% 184	28.9% 187	32.6% 114	32.3% 678
Not very convincing	13.0% 71	17.3% 96	13.9% 90	19.7% 69	15.5% 326
Not at all convincing	10.1% 55	7.4% 41	6.7% 43	11.4% 40	8.5% 179
TOTAL	100.0% 546	100.0% 555	100.0% 646	100.0% 350	2097

Gender (I-GENDER)

	Male	Female	TOTAL
Very convincing	40.7% 411	46.4% 485	43.6% 896
Fairly convincing	33.2% 335	31.5% 330	32.3% 665
Not very convincing	17.3% 175	13.8% 144	15.5% 319
Not at all convincing	8.8% 89	8.3% 87	8.6% 176
TOTAL	100.0% 1010	100.0% 1046	2056

Religion (I-RELIGION)

	Protestant	Catholic	Jewish	Other	TOTAL
Very convincing	45.4% 508	45.9% 295	18.9% 10	58.0% 51	45.4% 864
Fairly convincing	32.3% 361	33.9% 218	32.1% 17	21.6% 19	32.3% 615
Not very convincing	14.8% 166	13.1% 84	20.8% 11	12.5% 11	14.3% 272
Not at all convincing	7.5% 84	7.2% 46	28.3% 15	8.0% 7	8.0% 152
TOTAL	100.0% 1119	100.0% 643	100.0% 53	100.0% 88	1903