steiny@scc.UUCP (Don Steiny) (02/07/85)
> > > > > > >.. Polls show that most people (over 70%, I think) > > > > > > Where did you get this statistic?? > > > > > > My polls show that most people (over 70%,) I asked > > > > > where the infant is born with no brain.). > > > > > Where did you get this statistic?? My poles show the opposite, ... and so on. I find the following article more persuasive than "polls I take myself" (my friends have a point of view similar to my own). ** ---------------------------------------------- Majority in ABC Poll Support Abortion Washington An ABC News poll released yesterday found that support for abortion on demand increased during President Reagan's first term. Asked whether a woman should be able to get an abortion on demand if she wants one, "no matter what the reason," 52 percent of the respondents said yes. Forty percent supported that position in a poll in 1981, ABC said. ABC reported that 53 percent of Roman Catholics supported abortion on demand, as did 50 percent of the Protestants in the sample. ABC said the poll, based on interviews during January 18-20 with a random sample of 505 man and women 18 years and older, had a margin of error of pluse or minus 5 percent. Eighty-five percent of the respondents believed that the recent bombings of abortion clinics were "outright criminal acts," not acts of civil disobedience, ABC said. A.P. & U.P. San Francisco Chronicle Wednesday, January 23, 1985 ---------------------------------------- It looks like the pro-life people are a bit premature trying to get legislation to cram their viewpoint down the rest of our throats. The first step in anything like this is to get a majority to agree with you, then the votes will follow. Whatever the anti-abortion people are doing, they are getting fewer people to agree with them, not more. -- scc!steiny Don Steiny - Personetics @ (408) 425-0382 ihnp4!pesnta -\ 109 Torrey Pine Terr. fortune!idsvax -> scc!steiny Santa Cruz, Calif. 95060 ucbvax!twg -/