Table 2.

The percentage of US Ob/Gyns [lsqb]N = 1154[rsqb] that reports moral objection to abortion, and willingness to help patients obtain abortion, in seven hypothetical clinical scenarios

Clinical Scenario	Do you morally object to abortion in this case? (Yes)	Would you help the patient obtain the abortion if asked? (Yes)
	N (%)	N (%)
	(95% CI)	(95% CI)
A. A 22-year-old single woman 6 weeks pregnant after failed hormonal contraception	420 (41)	970 (85)
	(38–44)	(82–87)
B. A 38 year old with five daughters and no sons, after chorionic villus testing at 10 weeks gestation reveals the fetus is a chromosomally normal female	923 (82)	719 (64)
	(80–85)	(61–67)
C. A 36 year old in the first trimester of pregnancy who needs radiation and chemotherapy for newly diagnosed breast cancer	178 (18)	1046 (91)
	(16–21)	(89–93)
D. A 28 year old with brittle type 1 diabetes, for whom glucose management has become very difficult at 16 weeks gestation	445 (43)	915 (80)
	(40–46)	(78–83)
E. A 34-year-old woman 6 weeks pregnant after being raped	206 (20)	1041 (91)
	(18–23)	(89–93)
F. Selective reduction in a healthy 37-year-old patient with quintuplet pregnancy	294 (29)	1001 (88)
	(26–32)	(86–90)
G. A 24 year old with a cardiopulmonary abnormality associated with a 25% chance of death with gestation	155 (16)	1060 (93)
	(14–18)	(91–95)