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- Title
- Attitudes to abortion in Australia: 1972 to 2003
- Author(s)
- Betts, Katharine
- Abstract
- Since the October 2004 Federal election Australia has embarked on a new abortion debate. Some commentators suggest that public opinion has turned away from a pro-choice position. However the new 2003 Australian Survey of Social Attitudes shows this is not so: 81 per cent of Australians are pro-choice and only nine per cent are definitely anti-choice. This and other surveys show that the only strong constituencies for change are among some evangelical Christians and some Coalition candidates in Federal elections. Women of child-bearing age are overwhelmingly pro-choice.
- Publication type
- Journal article
- Research centre
- Swinburne University of Technology. Faculty of Life and Social Sciences
- Source
- People and Place, Vol. 12, no. 4 (2004), pp. 22-27
- Publication year
- 2004
- Publisher
- Monash Centre for Population and Urban Research
- ISSN
- 1039-4788
- Publisher URL
- http://arrow.monash.edu.au/hdl/1959.1/480522
- Copyright
- Copyright © 2004 Monash University and Katharine Betts. Published version of this paper reproduced with the kind permission of the publisher.
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