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Article: The joy of sexual values.(sexual attitudes more conservative in the 1990s)(Brief Article)
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- U.S. News & World Report
- Article date:
- March 1, 1999
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Faye Wattleton, former head of Planned Parenthood, was crushed to learn that women's attitudes on abortion are not what she supposed they were. A poll conducted by Wattleton's new group, the Center for Gender Equality, found that 53 percent of American women think abortion should be allowed only after rape or incest, to save a woman's life, or not at all. Only 28 percent said abortion should be generally available, and 70 percent want more restrictions.
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