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  Northern Ireland Social Attitudes Survey - 1989

Year: 1989
Module: Morality
Variable: ABORT7

Question: Here are a number of circumstances in which a woman might consider an abortion. Please say whether or not you think the law should allow an abortion in each case.
The woman became pregnant as a result of rape.

Index to tables on this page

  1. % of men and women
  2. % of people of different ages
  3. % of people of different religions.

Overall Results %
Yes70
No24
Don't know2
Not answered4

Results for men and women
%
 MaleFemale
Yes 74 66
No 20 28
Don't know 2 2
Not answered 4 3

Table Index

Results for people of different ages
%
 18-2425-3435-4445-5455-6465+
Yes 68 81 70 72 65 63
No 29 16 23 28 24 27
Don't know 0 0 4 0 3 6
Not answered 2 3 4 1 8 3

Table Index

Results for people of different religions
%
 CatholicProtestantNo religion
Yes 48 81 89
No 46 13 10
Don't know 4 2 0
Not answered 3 4 1

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