2. About the respondents
Age: 12 people are from 19 to 21 years old
3 people are fifties
1 person is 70 years old
Gender:2 men and 14 women
Nationality: 3 American
13 Japanese
3. pro-life or pro-choice?
life shouldn't be pro-life or pro-choice?
chosen by anyone.
If you have a baby,
you must raise her.
pro-life
pro-choice
neither
4. This is the question for women.
If you become pregnant against your will,
would you have an abortion?
No
Yes
0 2 4 6 8 10
5. ・If I give birth in the situation, I and my
Yes… baby would not be happy.
・ I have to bring up baby no matter
whether I want to or not if I had a baby.
・ I am not independent economically, so I
wouldn't be able to grow up my child.
・ I can't bring up a child without the will.
No… ・I have to have a responsibility for everything
that I do.
・ I have responsibility for new life.
6. This is a question for men. If your dearest
woman becomes pregnant against her
will, would you want her to have an
abortion ?
• Yes, I am finished raising children.
• I would leave the decision to her. It might
be a very difficult one for her.
7. There are many teenagers
who have an abortion in Japan.
What do you think about this problem?
→ 14 out of 15 persons answered it is not good .
• Many Japanese teen-ager can't think about
life and pregnancy seriously.
• Teenagers should consider well before they
are pregnant.
• I think it's sad that the state of sex education
is so poor in Japan.
8. What is the best solution
for this problem?
• Japanese schools don‘t teach enough about sex education and
sexual morality , so teen-agers may don't pay attention to
pregnancy. I think Japanese schools should teach them more.
• Both boys and girls should learn this problem deeper in
school. Moreover, parents should teach sex-education to their
children more.
• I think young people should be taught more about sex by their
parents and teachers, and they should know about birth
control in detail from junior high school age.
• I think we have to do birth control.
9. Have any of your acquaintances
ever had an abortion?
→ 2 people answered yes.
the situation at
that time
・My baby and I was (am)
married to someone else.
