Poll on abortion
Curia did polling in January for ALRANZ to ascertain views of New Zealanders on whether abortion should be legal in different circumstances. I thought the results were very interesting with the net level of support (those saying legal less those saying illegal) for each situation being:
- Pregnant woman likely to die +72%
- Foetus has no chance of survival +70%
- Pregnant woman likely to be permanently harmed +70%
- Pregnancy is a result of rape +65%
- Pregnancy is a result of birth control failure +31%
- Pregnant mother can’t afford to have another child +27%
- Pregnant woman doesn’t want to be a mother +22%