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Catholics have abortions . . .
Catholic women in the United States are as likely as women in the general population to have an abortion, and 29% more likely than Protestant women.
Survey by the Alan Guttmacher Institute of 9,985 abortion patients: Stanley Henshaw and Kathryn Kost, "Abortion Patients in 1994-95: Characteristics and Contraceptive Use," Family Planning Perspectives, July/August 1996.
Catholic countries, even where abortion is illegal, have high levels of abortions: In Brazil, the estimated number of abortions ranges from 1 million to 2 million per year.
Brazilian Institute of Development, 1989 poll of urban areas with populations > 1,000; Clandestine Abortion: A Latin American Reality (Washington: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1994).
In Argentina, the federal government estimates that 365,000 abortions are performed each year. The International Planned Parenthood Federation puts the estimate even higher, at 450,000 a year.
International Family Planning Perspectives, March 1994.
In Colombia, there are 300,000 to 400,000 abortions per year.
Carlos Lemoine, Las Fuerzas de la Opinion (Colombia: Centro Nacional de Consultoria, 1992), p. 89.
In Peru, 5% of women of childbearing age have abortions each year, compared to 3% in the United States.
Clandestine Abortion: A Latin American Reality (Washington: Alan Guttmacher Institute, 1994).
. . . and Catholics believe abortion can be moral
64% of US Catholics disapprove of the statement that abortion is morally wrong in every case.
Survey of 493 Catholics, designed by Lake Research and Tarrance Group, for US News & World Report, Sept. 1995, margin of error ± 4.5%.
69% of US Catholics believe a woman who has an abortion for reasons other than to save her life still can be a good Catholic.
ABC/Washington Post poll of 1,530 adults, Sept. 1995, margin of error ± 3%.
It is common for Catholics to disagree with church teaching on abortion.
91% of Catholics in Poland approve of legal abortion to protect the woman's health; 85% in cases of rape; and 58% in cases of poverty.
Ted Jelen and Clyde Wilcox, "Attitudes Toward Abortion in Poland and the United States," Midwest Political Science Association meeting, Chicago, USA, Apr. 1993, citing data gathered by the National Opinion Research Center, Chicago, USA.
40% of Brazilian Catholics think couples should be free to decide about abortion for themselves.
Public opinion poll, Brazilian Institute of Development, 1989.
72% of Catholics in Australia say decisions about abortion should be left to individual women and their doctors.
Survey for Family Planning Australia and Children by Choice, Melbourne, AGB McNair, Aug. 1996.
