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Friday, December 4th, 2015

Christian Group’s Survey Finds That Christians Have the Most Abortions in U.S.

Author:     Walter Einenkel
Source:     Alternet/Daily Kos
Publication Date:     December 2, 2015
 Link: Christian Group’s Survey Finds That Christians Have the Most Abortions in U.S.
Stephan:   The failure of the Theocratic Right to live the values they profess can hardly be over-stated. Here's why I say this. Like Pope Francis I have come to think of fundamentalism of whatever stripe as a mental illness expressed in a religious context.
Credit: aattp.org

Credit: aattp.org

With the terrible events that unfolded over the holiday weekend still reverberating across the country, it is timely that the Christian Research group LifeWay would release the findings of a survey they conducted concerning abortion and the demographics of abortion when it comes to religion. The study was co-sponsored by Care Net, a pregnancy center support organization. Some of their findings:

  • 70 percent of the women they surveyed identified as Christians.
  • 23 percent of Christian women who have had an abortion consider themselves evangelical Christians.
  • Over one third of the women surveyed attend a church once a week or more.
  • Over half of the women who attend church regularly have kept their terminated pregnancy secret from their church community.

On the plus side, and probably surprising to many on the right of this issue who frequently share horror stories of women secretly having abortions while good Christian men are powerless, the majority of women based their decision to terminate a pregnancy (regardless of their religious affiliation) on the influence of the father of the unborn child. The influence of the father in […]

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