People’s Attitude Towards Abortion in Australia

piles pose towards spontaneous still tolerate in Australia Abstract The hypothesis, It is app bent that in Australia tidy sum are not ancillary of miscarri mount up. would be tested in the key discover. The aim of it was to reconcile the current views of plurality in Australia towards abortion, on a lower floor the circumstances of several(predicate) term and cultural background. A enquirynaire to the highest degree warrant yards, legalisation and values on abortion was constructed and the address group would be 20 supranational students and 20 local Australians.The international students were mainly Chinese, and a few from South-East Asia. though close participants did not swallow a re all(prenominal)y strong stance of obligateing abortion or not, when there were further questions approximately Pro- choice behaviour and legalization of abortion, it was discovered that participants were actually in respect of freedom of choice, and agreed that abortion shou ld be legalized. Therefore it could be said that comparing the 2 sides, participants were instead supportive to abortion.Based on the results, protracted investigatees covering a large come in group which could mostly represent varied cultural groups could be conducted to test whether abortion was really generally acceptable or not or could it be legalized downstairs all cases. Introduction stillbirth had been a controversial replication for hundreds of years, discussions and debates were always held to argue whether it should or should not be declared legal.This issue was crucial at all time because the perspective towards it were mainly influenced by various important values of life wish morality, homosexual fulls and freedom of choice, adding that they were the key factors to determine whether it should be declared legal. Abortion can be defined as the expulsion or removal of an embryo or foetus from the uterus of the pregnant fetch (Blade, 2008). It could be divi de into two types. First, the spontaneous abortion occurs when the renders torso ejects the foetus due to different sympathys, usually natural bingles (without human effort).This work focused on another type of abortion, induced abortion. This was what slew usually mean when they use the word abortion. In other words, it was the close of pregnancy. After the Federation in 1901, abortion was handled by the British Offences Against the Person Act of 1861. In the act, abortion was illegal , no reckon under what circumstances. However, since then, abortion would be legal in some cases under the law.For instance, Natasha,(1998), suggested that under the McGuire ruling (1986) in Queensland, abortion could only be legalized when the mother was in threat that abortion could preserve her life or health. other case that abortion could be legalized was that if the newborn baby would die at once or within a short period. For the current legislation closely it in Queensland under the Queensland Criminal Code, the viewpoint remained similar that the court would extirpate abortion unless the mothers life or health is in danger.Though, it did not burst any response on the change of attitudes of citizenry towards abortion. The aim of the report was to reveal the current views of race in Australia towards abortion, under the circumstances of different age and cultural background(international students versus local Australians). It appeared that nowadays more and more state were supportive to abortion. This view would be supported by the results from survey and then a discussion part of it would be include and at live on the conclusion and recommendation would be formulated.Methodology Questionnaires about the attitudes of abortion of people were used to collect data for the report. A qualitative methodology was used. The tenableness for choosing it was because the report focused more on depth, rather than quantity. According to the Family health Internation al (2005), a qualitative research provided information about the human side of an issue, which was often contradictory. It could in addition interpret the complex reality or create a better registering to a specific mail ser guilt and the implications of the qualitative data.Another important point was that it could help identify nonphysical factors (age, gender, nationality, religion, etc) in the report. These factors were the keys that influence a persons attitude toward the issue. The violence of the questionnaire was to understand participants standpoints for or against abortion, therefore 10 out of 14 questions were about their opinion, the rest were 3 attribute questions and 1 intimacy question. The total number of participants was 40. There were altogether 20 international students perusal in Australia and 20 local Australians completed the questionnaire.Among the participants, 23 of them were female and 17 were male. In the student group, 2 of them were under or belo w 18 and 18 were at the age of 19 to 30. Among the local Australians, 6 of them were amidst 31-45 and another 14 were 45 or above. A point to product line was that for the international students, 15 of them were Chinese. To make sure the information would be kept secret, no questions were about identity or other private information. The questionnaires were abandoned out in two ways. The first way was to distribute them at school and at homes, and another way was to distribute them through the internet.Participants were sooner interested to the questionnaire as they thought that it was a controversial issue. However in the process, participants found confused with the exsert straight-from-the-shoulder-ended question about the alliance between cultivation, age and abortion as it was not required to state reasons but lines were given. Moreover, due to a lack of time in end the questionnaire, i. e. in 5 or 10 minutes, the data collected magnate be wrestleed. Results The purpo se of the questionnaire was to find out the attitudes of people in Australia towards abortion.Questions were divided into 3 main categories justified reasons for abortion, legalization of abortion and viewpoints and value towards abortion. For the justified reasons for abortion, a total of 8 choices were given to participants and they could choose more than one answers, including 1. psychological reasons e. g. resisting abrupt change of life 2. economic reasons e. g. financial incumbrance of raising children 3. unsuitable babies e. g. pregnant in mistake 4. caused by rapes 5. unready for office 6. as problems with relationship or wants to evacuate single parenthood 7. mother has health problems 8. has already all the children she wanted or all children are gravid From the questionnaire, participants thought that the most justified reasons for abortion were economic reasons and pregnancies caused by rapes, both of them make 62. 5% of the total. The next would be unready for resp onsibility (35%), unwanted babies (32. 5%), mother has health problems (30%), problem for relationship or wants to avoid single parenthood (22. 5%), psychological reasons (12. %) and the least justified reason would be has already children she wanted or all children are grown (10%). For another category, legalization of abortion, there was an open-ended question asking the participants about one pros and cons of abortion. For the pros, there were several main ideas. First, people thought that afterwards legalization of abortion, risks could be reduced as people no eight-day find doctors with no license to abort. Secondly, it would a respect to freedom of choice of people. Thirdly, there would be fewer children grown up in an coseismal environment.For the cons, people also got similar ideas, for instance, abortion was against the respect of life, i. e. killing free life. Also, people could be more irresponsible as they could abort legally. For the last category, viewpoints and va lues towards abortion, 6 questions were raised. Majorities believed that abortion was decorous common nowadays (25% powerfully agree, 50% agree). For the question about whether the peoples views towards abortion was changing, larger part of them agree with the statement (20%strongly agree, 40% agree) buy rather a number of people maintained neutral (32. %). For the question it is cold and should be banned, the 2 sides were almost balanced (5% strongly agree, 32. 5% agree versus 7. 5%strongly disagree and 37. 5% disagree), about 17. 5% people chose to be neutral. In the question of freedom of choice, it was quite a sloping that it should be highly respected (40% for both strongly agree or agree, adding up to 80%). Asking about if it was acceptable in all cases, disagreement (20% strongly disagree, 42. 5% disagree) was more than agreement (32. 5% agree).Though, quite a lot of people thought that they would provoke different views upon abortion in different cases (35% strongly agree, 32. 5% agree). For the last open-ended question about the relationship between age, culture and views towards abortion, the main ideas of the participants were that aged people, i. e. age group of 45 or above, would be more conservative and therefore have a negative view upon abortion. Moreover, they thought that people with different culture, particularly westerners in the Chineses eyes, would be more open and accept the idea of abortion.Discussion and conclusion The aim of the report was to reveal the current views of people in Australia towards abortion, under the circumstances of different age and cultural background (international students versus local Australians). From the results, we could see that many participants did not have a really strong stance of backup abortion or not, only a few do. For instance, about 70% of the participants agreed that they would have different views upon abortion in different cases.The most justified cases would be pregnancies by rapes a nd economic reasons (It was logical that according to Thomson Reuters (2009), an income group of US$39,100 $65,800 would requirement a total of $170,460 a year to raise up a children form 0 to 17 year old). Yet, there were enough data to test the hypothesis. There were data supporting the hypothesis. From the results, participants who did not fully support abortion were mainly female or Chinese, whom thought that abortion was untamed and should be banned. The number made up 32. 5% of the total participants.The reason behind was that female themselves would have real experiences in giving birth so they would have deeper thoughts than male. For Chinese participants, they were young but at the kindred time they were also deeply influenced by a traditional way of life of education. The curriculum focused on teaching people to have right values stated by the Confucius and other great figures. According to Vivien (2006), the vice president for education at the Asia Society, china sho uld move away from the traditional forms of practices and adopt a broader curriculum to achieve the goal of becoming a real modern society.Despite there were data supporting the hypothesis, it was in a small proportion. We could find more data that was contrary to it. It also proved that people at older ages might not be conservative. Participants, mostly Australians (mostly aged 45 or above), were rather Pro-Choice. It was because of the trend of abortion. It was becoming more and more common. According to a table drawn by Wm Robert Johnson (2008), the abortion percentage rose from 15. 6% in 1984 to 21. 5% in 2006 in Australia. It might also be because of the cultural background.Comparing to sphere like china, westernized countries emphasized more on freedom of people. From the results, there were 32. 5% of the total participants who thought abortion was acceptable at all cases. most importantly, over 80% of them agreed that people should respect the mothers decision. The data wa s supported by a report by Monash University (2002). It included a survey on AES voters and candidates (about 2000 people are surveyed a year) about their attitudes towards abortion, from 1987 to 2001.The percentage of people choosing the criteria Woman should be able to obtain an abortion readily when they want one rose from 38% to 59% from 1987 to 2001. On the other hand, the percentage of people choosing the criteria abortion should not be allowed under any circumstances dropped from 6% to 3% in that period. Another bear witness was that when participants were asked about whether abortion should be legalized, 65% of them thought that it should be legalized. From the above, we could understand the current views of people in Australia towards abortion, at different ages and cultural background.Though people did not have a strong stance of supporting abortion or not, we could find more evidence showing that people were actually more Pro-Choice than Pro-Life, in other words they wo uld be more supportive to abortion, especially in recent years where abortion was more commonly found. Recommendations Concerning the implications of the report findings, it was quite obvious that more people in Australia were actually supportive to abortion, based on their Pro-Choice attitude and the agreement of legalizing abortion.The scale and the target groups of the report were small that might distort the real opinion throughout the country. However, based on the report findings, extended researches could be done in examining whether abortion was generally acceptable or not and the possibility to further legalize abortion, as participants of the questionnaire could already understandably state some pros and cons of legalizing abortion. The research should cover a larger target group as Australia was rather multi-cultural.People in different culture could have their views in according to the religion, which was also important in this issue and not discussed in this report. To conclude, though the report did not represent most age and cultural groups in Australia, it could be the basis of further research in testing whether legalizing abortion was possible. References Blade 2001, Should abortion be legalized in Queensland, Australia? , Available at http//www. bladesplace. id. au/abortion-law-queensland. hypertext markup language C. 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