Poll: More Italians Support Abortion Rights than Cosmetic Surgery

July 31, 2014

(Washington Post) – According to the survey published in the daily La Stampa this week, 61 percent of Italians support abortion and 76 percent believe they should be able to request the right to die. By comparison, only 44 percent of those surveyed said they supported face-lifts, which are common in Italy. The dissonance was telling because more than 80 percent of Italians consider themselves Catholic, according to a recent Pew Research poll, and church teaching opposes abortion as a grave moral evil.