Sixty-one percent of UK Catholic say abortion's ok

Sixty-one percent of UK Catholic say abortion is ok

Thursday, September 14th, 2017

British Catholics who believe “the law should allow an abortion if a woman decides on her own she does not wish to have a child” rose to 61 per cent in 2016.

This is a large increase from 39 per cent in 2012 and 33 per cent in 1985, the 2016 British Social Attitudes survey says. Read more

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