CBS's Bert Quint claimed during a June 1, 1991 report on CBS Evening News that the deeply Catholic Polish people didn't agree with Pope John Paul II's defense of the Church's moral teachings. Quint also hinted that the Pope's influence in his native country would be worse for the country than the old communist regime:

"But most of his fellow countrymen do not share John Paul's concept of morality...many here expect John Paul to use his authority to support Church efforts to ban abortion, perhaps the country's principal means of birth control. And this, they say, could deprive them of a freedom of choice the communists never tried to take away from them."