Monday, December 03, 2007

strong support for abortion on demand in UK

Here's a YouGov survey commissioned by Catholics for Choice that seems to have passed without major media interest. The top-line summary is strong support for abortion on demand (pdf): 63% agree or strongly agree that it should be legal for a woman to have an abortion when she has an unwanted pregnancy; 14% disagree or strongly disagree.

When cross-referenced by faith, 58% of Christians/Protestants supported the legality of abortion; even amongst Catholics (for whom doctrine should dictate a complete rejection of abortion) support runs at 43%. In short, we're far more pro-choice than the recent debate of abortion limits might have led you to expect - and certainly more pro-choice than the kind of groups that Nadine Dorries and others choose to represent as the mainstream.

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