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Table 4 Religion and knowledge associated with moral attitude in percentage (N = 375)

From: Survey of knowledge and attitude regarding induced abortion among nurses in a tertiary hospital in Thailand after amendment of the abortion act: a cross-sectional study

Conditions

Religion

Knowledge

Muslim (n = 221)

Buddhist (n = 154)

More than 80%

(n = 70)

Less than 80%

(n = 305)

Prochoice (strongly agree and agree)

 Abortion can be a good thing in any circumstances.

5.0

9.1

10.0

5.9

 Abortion is a woman’s right.

27.6*

46.8*

55.8*

30.0*

 Abortion after gestational age 12 week is acceptable in every situation.

12.2

16.2

17.1

13.1

Conditional agreement (strongly agree and agree)

 Abortion after gestational age 12 week is acceptable in some situation.

57.5

66.2

81.4*

56.4*

Prolife (strongly disagree and disagree)

 Abortion is the same as murder.

15.8*

26.6*

27.1

18.7

 Abortion is wrong.

17.2*

27.9*

27.1

20.3

 Abortion is sinful.

10.4*

18.2*

24.3*

11.1*

  1. *Fisher’s exact test p < 0.05