Purpose: This research had as an aim to
estimate Greek’ citizens attitude toward abortion.
Methods: In the research participated 1017 persons,
274 (26.9%) were male and 743 (73.1%) female.
The average age was 26.69 years and SD ±10.183.
60.3% was not married, 32% was married, 5.7%
divorced and 0.8% widow. 78.1% was citizens of
Athens and the rest were living in the suburbs. In
order to collect the information, it was used a 20‐
closed type questionnaire which the members of the
research team were filling up, by personal interview.
Results: 13.9% declare that has done abortion and
from those, 60.7% refers to the reason of not being
married. For the abortion was the companion in a
percentage of 87.3%. 51. 1% of women who have
done abortion, believes that is action is a murder,
the same thing believes 68.8% of those who haven’t
done an abortion (p<0.001). The same opinion has
64.9% of those who states that they believe in God,
in contrast to 37.2% who do not believe (p<0.001)
23.3% of those who believe in God, considers
abortion to be a sin, no matter what the reason may
be for this action, in contrast to 62.4% who don’t think that it’s a sin and they do not believe in God
(p<0.001) 78.3% of those who have done an
abortion would feel guilty after this action. Abortion
is a dilemma believes the percentage of το 80.6% of
those who have done one, in contrast to 72.6% who
haven’t done one.
Conclusions
13.9% of the whole sample has done an abortion
and in a percentage of 87.3% the companion agreed
with that. 58.8% believes that abortion is a sin.
72.7% answers that there is no sufficient
information from the Media. 68.6% wouldn’t have
done an abortion, in case of financial help from the
state.