Friday, January 16, 2009

Americans want shades of gray in abortion debate (Response)

I thought this website had a lot of good information on it. It was mainly talking about a survey that people took and their results on it. Some of the percentage surprised me more then others. I thought that allowing abortions for woman that have been raped is a good idea but I don't think they should allow abortions for girls that are too irresponsible to take birth control. They shouldn't be having intercorse if they arn't responsble enough to take care of a child. I also think that if doctors don't want to participate in abortions, they shouldn't have to.

Americans want shades of gray in abortion debate notes

Only 9% of participants agreed that abortion should be legal for any reason at any point during a pregnancy.

Only 11% wanted it totally banned.

38% of participants thought it should be allowed through the whole pregnancy is to “save the life of the mother” or because of rape.

33% of participants wanted only abortions for the first three or six months of pregnancy.

76% of participants protect doctors and nurses from being forced to perform or refer for
abortions against their will

73% of participants require giving parents the chance to be involved in their under age daughter’s abortion decision.