Table 2 Measures and Reliability of Latent Variables

Attitude towards Assisted Dying

• Assisted dying should be allowed for patients who are dying

• Assisted dying should be allowed for patients who have an incurable chronic disease yet who are not dying

Attitude towards Conscientious Objection

• In general, healthcare professionals should be able to refrain from tasks for reasons of conscience, through local agreements that ensure the patient help from a colleague

• In general, healthcare professionals should have a statutory right to refrain from tasks for reasons of conscience

Attitude towards Abortion

• In the first 12 weeks of pregnancy abortion should be available on request

• The time limit for having an abortion should be extended to 16 weeks

• It is ethically acceptable to choose abortion because the fetus has Down syndrome

Attitude towards Secularism

• Norwegian society should be secular, without influence from Christianity

• Christianity should have greater influence on Norwegian society (reversed)