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Question: Do you personally think it is wrong or not wrong for a woman to have an abortion if there is a strong chance of serious defect in the baby?
Choices: "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong" "Wrong only sometimes" "Not wrong at all"
Data: % of "Always wrong" "Almost always wrong"
Period:
Area:
30 countries/ areas
Highlight:
1 Chile64.6%
2 Mexico55.4%
3 Ireland 49.8%
4 Turkiye49.0%
5 New Zealand40.4%
6 Austria37.3%
7 Israel34.3%
8 Japan32.7%
9 United States31.1%
10 Poland29.0%
11 Latvia27.6%
12 Germany26.1%
13 United Kingdom24.5%
14 Italy23.1%
15 Slovakia22.8%
16 Spain21.0%
17 Republic of Korea20.5%
18 Portugal19.5%
19 Switzerland17.2%
20 Netherlands16.7%
21 Slovenia16.4%
22 Czech Republic16.0%
23 Australia15.6%
24 Finland13.4%
25 Norway13.2%
26 Hungary11.1%
27 Belgium8.9%
28 Denmark8.3%
29 France8.1%
30 Sweden8.0%

Note
Can't choose/ No answer are excluded. Belgium: Flanders only. Germany: unweighted sum of West and East Germany. Israel: unweighted sum of Jews and Arabs. Italy: unweighted sum of 2008 and 2010 surveys. United Kingdom: excluding Northern Ireland.

No data for 8 countries.

Source
ISSP 2008

Correlations with major national performance indices
Life satisfaction (10 steps)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -1.811355 X +7.187
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.401
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.161

GDP per capita (current US$)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -41887.639048 X +55174.909
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.257
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.066

Life expectancy at birth - Both sexes (years)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -4.340954 X +81.682
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.241
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.058

Fertility rate, total (births per woman)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = 0.646083 X +1.423
Correlation coefficient (r)0.282
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.080

Suicide - all ages (per 100,000 population)
No. of data30
Regression equation
Y = -15.654070 X +16.601
Correlation coefficient (r)-0.446
Coefficient of determination (R2)0.199