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GSS question on whether the respondent would want an abortion if a test shows the baby has a serious genetic defect, asked in 1990-2004 and again in 2018 with slightly revised wording.
AI-matched An AI model grouped these questions and mapped their answers onto shared categories, and a second AI review checked and corrected the grouping and mapping. No person has checked it: compare the question wordings and the answer mapping below before reading the lines against each other.
Latest: 33% answered “Would want abortion” in GSS: Would want abortion if test shows genetic defect, 2018.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each column is one survey wave, evenly spaced rather than to scale in time; hover for exact shares.
Shares of people whose answer maps onto these categories (non-answers and answers outside the scale are left out), because surveys differ in whether they offer “don’t know.” Each point is one survey wave at the middle of its field period. Lines from different surveys are never spliced together.
Groups differ from everyone by 7 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Would want abortion if test shows serious genetic defect.
| Line | Question | Match | How answers map |
|---|---|---|---|
| GSS: Would want abortion if test shows serious genetic defect | Would want abortion if test shows serious genetic defect Suppose a test shows the baby has a serious genetic defect. Would you (yourself want to/ want your partner to) have an abortion if a test shows the baby has a serious genetic defect? Caveat: Original 1990-2004 wording; reference version | identical | Have abortion → Would want abortion; No abortion → Would not want abortion |
| GSS: Would want abortion if test shows genetic defect | Would want abortion if test shows genetic defect Suppose a test shows the baby has a serious genetic defect. Would you (yourself want/want the pregnant woman/want your partner) to have an abortion if a test shows the baby has a serious genetic defect? Caveat: 2018 revised wording adds 'pregnant woman' option; yes/no scale | equivalent | Yes → Would want abortion; No → Would not want abortion |
Groups differ from everyone by 6 points on average across all answers, in GSS: Would want abortion if test shows serious genetic defect.
Subgroup charts are picked automatically. Of every breakdown in the data (party, ideology, age, sex, race, education, income, region, religion, and community type), these two put their groups furthest from everyone’s answers: the gap is averaged across all answer categories and waves, with each group weighted by its share of respondents. Party and ideology count as one choice, so the second chart shows a different kind of split. Groups with an effective sample under 50 in a wave are left out of that wave.