tynor@gitpyr.UUCP (Steve Tynor) (08/02/85)
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Finally, results to the religion/abortion poll posted some weeks past...
As many people pointed out, these results probably are meaningless, but here
are the stats anyway:
Number respondents: 29
1) Describe your attitude toward abortion:
Raw scores:
a - It's the woman's right to her body 48.3%
b - It's the woman's right, but we shouldn't provide 6.9%
public funds for it.
c - abortion is ok sometimes (ie. when the mother's 20.7%
health is theatened) but not in general
d - Abortion is wrong (period) 10.3%
e - some other view 13.8%
Correlated by religion: (pardon the rather broad categorizations...)
Agnostic/Athiest Christian Other
a - 8 3 3
b - 2 0 0
c - 3 1 2
d - 0 3 0
e - 0 3 1
2) What is your religious affiliation?
a - Christian 34.5%
b - Muslim 0.0%
c - Buddhist 0.0%
d - Hindu 0.0%
e - Jewish 13.8%
f - Agnostic 34.5%
g - Athiest 10.3%
h - other 6.9%
3) if you answered 'a' to number 2, indicate denomination:
a - Romon Catholic 20.0%
b - Baptist
c - Methodist
d - Episcopalian
e - Mormon
f - other 80.0%
Well, draw your own conclusions...
The original poll is appended to the end of this article for those who are
interested.
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Steve Tynor
Georgia Instutute of Technology
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>Date: 29 Jun 85 03:07:26 GMT
>So often I've seen the Right To Life movement equated with religious
>belief: "...are you a Catholic?" I, for one, am strongly anti-abortion,
>yet I'm about as non-religious as one could get.
>
>So, here's a poll for net.abortion followers:
>
> 1) Describe your attitude toward abortion:
> a - It's the woman's right to her body
> b - It's the woman's right, but we shouldn't provide
> public funds for it.
> c - abortion is ok sometimes (ie. when the mother's
> health is theatened) but not in general
> d - Abortion is wrong (period)
> e - some other view (please elaborate)
>
> 2) What is your religious affiliation?
> a - Christian
> b - Muslim
> c - Buddhist
> d - Hindu
> e - Jewish
> f - Agnostic
> g - Athiest
> h - other ____________
>
> 3) if you answered 'a' to number 2, indicate denomination:
> a - Romon Catholic
> b - Baptist
> c - Methodist
> d - Episcopalian
> e - Mormon
> f - other ------------
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Steve Tynor
Georgia Insitute of Technology, Atlanta Georgia, 30332
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