More than 65 percent of Poles believe that emergency contraception should be available without a prescription, although one in four of us favor its availability only to women of legal age. More supporters, however, are, all together, for the option of not introducing any age restrictions, possibly setting the limit at 15 years, as passed by the Parliament.
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Emergency contraception: are we for or even against it?
Published March 4, 2024 09:32
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The Biostat Research and Development Center conducted a survey on the survey-opinii.pl panel on, among other things, the current hottest worldview issues, including emergency contraception. The survey was conducted from February 20 to 22, 2024, and responses were collected among 1,000 Polish adults.
According to 26.3 percent of respondents, they believe that the morning-after pill should be available without a prescription, but only to people who are 18 years of age or older. 20.6 percent of respondents favor unlimited availability, according to 18.4 percent. - without a prescription from the age of 15. Access to the "morning-after pill" by prescription for women of legal age is supported by nearly 17 percent of respondents, and for women aged 15 and over by 8.5 percent. Less than 10 percent would like to see the morning-after pill banned in Poland. - Of course, there is a noticeable connection between the declared religious worldview and attitude toward religious practices and attitudes toward the day-after pill. Religious believers are the group that most often calls for a ban or limited access. However, even in this group, only one in five respondents is in favor of a total ban, comments Dr. Sebastian Musiol, methodology expert at CBR Biostat.
Biostat also checked general attitudes toward contraception. 41 percent of respondents support the use of contraception, but at the same time consider it a personal choice. One in three respondents believes that contraception should be widely available and reimbursed. One in ten is indifferent to this issue and the same group of respondents declare that they do not use contraception for ethical reasons, but do not condemn others who do. One in twenty respondents believes that contraception is immoral and should be banned. Here there is an interesting distribution of attitudes in the electorates of the various parties: nearly one in three Law and Justice voters consider contraception immoral, of which nearly 13 percent would like to see it banned. Half of KO and Left voters want reimbursement and universal availability of contraception. Third Way voters are most likely to support the use of contraception, however, leaving the issue to personal choice (46 percent), while contraceptive reimbursement is supported by roughly a quarter of TD voters - meanwhile, it is the Third Way clubs that have submitted a bill to the Sejm, providing for 100 percent reimbursement of contraceptives for women under 25 and expanding reimbursement for the rest.
