Survey results split over doctors opposed to abortion
Saturday, 6 Oct 2018
By Sharon Tobin
A survey has found that respondents were split on whether doctors opposed to abortion should be obliged to refer a patient to another doctor who will carry out the procedure.
The poll of 1,000 adults was carried out by Amárach on behalf of The Pro Life Campaign, which is holding its National Conference today.
Continued: https://www.rte.ie/news/ireland/2018/1006/1001378-abortion-survey/
Rising support for abortion
May 14, 2018
In April and May pro-choice billboards with the slogan “Women in Poland demand legal abortion” have appeared in different cities and towns across Poland. This campaign was organised by an informal women’s group, which managed to gather financial means in a crowdfunding campaign. The organizers and supporters wished to protest with these billboards against manipulative messages of the anti-abortion fundamentalists and to make their voice in the public sphere more distinctive. The billboards were meant to support pro-choice people in smaller, conservative towns and to empower them to show that they possess agency and can change the reality. Their action reflects a solid and growing support for the liberalization of the anti-abortion law.
The latest opinion poll conducted by IPSOS in cooperation with OKO.press, the online portal run by investigative journalists, reaffirms some continued trends, but it also surprises with new observations. The most crucial conclusions:
Continued: http://en.federa.org.pl/rising-support-for-abortion/
RCN survey 'signals support' for decriminalisation of abortion
2 May, 2018
By Steve Ford, News Editor
Members of the Royal College of Nursing have “signalled support” for removing criminal sanctions from termination of pregnancy legislation, said the body in the wake of a consultation.
It revealed today that the results of a UK-wide poll of RCN members showed 73.7% of respondents had voted in favour of removing criminal sanctions from legislation relating to abortion.
New Zealand Is Pro-choice on Abortion
February 23, 2017
Terry Bellamak
This Opinion piece is by Terry Bellamak, National President of the Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand (ALRANZ)
It’s official. This government is out of step with New Zealanders on abortion. Bill English has made his views clear.
As a devout Catholic, he opposes decriminalising abortion. But the people he hopes will vote for him later this year think differently.* The Abortion Law Reform Association of New Zealand (ALRANZ) recently commissioned a poll on attitudes to abortion to find out two things:
Continued at source: Werewolf: http://werewolf.co.nz/2017/02/new-zealand-is-pro-choice-on-abortion/
More than half NZers back legalising abortion - survey
20 February 2017
Sally Murphy
More than 50 percent of people think an abortion should be legal if the woman does not want to be a mother or cannot afford another child, a new survey shows.
The Abortion Law Reform Association survey of 1000 people asked if abortion should be legal in seven different circumstances.
It found only 14 percent of people correctly estimated around one in four women have had an abortion.
Continued at source: Radio New Zealand: http://www.radionz.co.nz/news/national/324887/more-than-half-nzers-back-legalising-abortion-survey
Most want abortion to be decriminalised: Survey
The Courier-Mail
February 20, 2017
MORE than 80 per cent of Queenslanders back decriminalisation of abortion.
A survey of 1201 adults by Fair Agenda found 82 per cent agreed it should be legal for a woman, in consultation with a medical professional, to terminate her pregnancy.
It also found 60 per cent of respondents would be less likely to support an MP who voted to keep abortion as a crime.
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