Methods

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the importance of religion is to a
person the less supportive they would be of abortion, with regards to that persons political
party affiliation. The party in which a person identifies with will have a direct effect on the
link between support for abortion and the importance of religion. Political parties, as well
as a persons religious background, play a major role in attitudes towards different issues.
By nature, democrats are more likely to approve abortion than republicans. A person�s
religious background usually has an effect on which party they associate themselves with.
Therefore, there must be a link between a person�s party affiliation, religious background,
and their support of abortion.
The second and third hypotheses indicate that gender has an effect on support for
abortion based on their religious beliefs. I believe that men are less likely to approve
abortion than women because of the women�s� movement that has been going on for
years. Many women are more ...

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weak republican, and strong republican. In order to
receive more accurate results, I recoded them down to three responses. Strong
democrats, weak democrats and independent democrats were recoded to democrats. The
independent response stayed the same. Finally, the independent republicans, weak
republicans, and the strong republicans were recoded to republicans. My second control
was gender. These responses were simply male and female.

Analysis of Data

Table 1
Support for Abortion by Importance of Religion: 1996
(In Percentages)

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Importance of Religion

Support for ...

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