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RussBLib

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7. where do the women learn such abhorrence of abortion if not from a church of some kind?
Tue Jun 23, 2015, 02:43 PM
Jun 2015

...or from someone who attends church regularly?

It would seem to me that ALL of the anti-abortion sentiment is generated from religious quarters. Am I wrong?

a sort of unrelated snip from the OP

Although few studies have been made of this phenomenon, a study done in 1981[1] found that 24% of women who had abortions considered the procedure morally wrong, and 7% of women who'd had abortions disagreed with the statement, "Any woman who wants an abortion should be permitted to obtain it legally."

A 1994/95 survey[2,3] of nearly 10,000 abortion patients showed 18% of women having abortions are born-again or Evangelical Christians. Many of these women are likely anti-choice. The survey also showed that Catholic women have an abortion rate 29% higher than Protestant women. A Planned Parenthood handbook on abortion notes that nearly half of all abortions are for women who describe themselves as born-again Christian, Evangelical Christian, or Catholic.[4]



hmmm....but upwards of 70% of the population identifies as religious in some way

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