Over 80% of Quebec's doctors recognize serious mental health dangers, the probability of fetal damage, or pregnancy due to rape as sufficient grounds for abortion. The most liberal 19% also accept pregnancy out of wedlock, or lack of economic support as a sufficient reason, but another 14% reject any basis for abortion, though among those some would accept a few criteria if the abortion were performed by another doctor. These results come from a random sample of the 12,000 doctors registered with the Quebec Medical Association. The high response rate of 45.4% gave ultimate representation to 10% of the medical population of Quebec. 90% of the doctors wanted a uniform set of criteria for hospital abortion committees, which now vary greatly. Protestant and Jewish hospitals being more liberal than Catholic ones. They also stressed sex education, access to contraceptives and services of birth regulation as necessary to stem overuse of abortions. The doctors were unsure of their legal position regarding abortion and tended to consider the law more restrictive than it is. Over 60% do want abortion removed from the Criminal Code. The number of referrals to hospital committees has increased between 1971-1975 though even in 1975 less than 132 doctors made more than half the demand. In 1975 doctors sent 30.1% of abortion demands to a committee, 20.7% to a clinic in the U.S., 14.8% to another doctor, 13.4% to a reference center, 10.4% to a Quebec clinic, 1.9% to a clinic elsewhere in Canada, and 8.7% of the cases were neither referred nor granted an abortion by the doctor. Most doctors agree that necessary action on the abortion issue includes discussions and conferences on the subject for medical personnel and the development of public awareness of the problem.