Abortion acceptability data

Yoshie Furuhashi furuhashi.1 at osu.edu
Tue Jun 2 13:27:36 PDT 1998


Katha wrote:
>Similarly, most Americans routinely tell
>pollsters that they think premarital sex, extramarital sex are ALWAYS
>wrong--that doesn't mean they want the govt to police the bedroom.

And most Americans routinely have premarital sex, extramarital sex, and all kinds of sex while telling pollsters they think sex is BAD, BAD, BAD.

The same goes for abortion.

What people say and what they do aren't the same. Even those who say that they are 'pro-life' or 'ambivalent' about abortion often need or want abortion when it comes to their own reproductive affairs.

Yoshie



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