Christian Womn Have The Most Abotions

[Cheerful Charlie]

Why does this not surprise me?

http://www.alternet.org/belief/christian-groups-survey-finds-christians-have-most-abortions-usChristian Group's Survey Finds That Christians Have the Most Abortions in U.S.


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.
  
  70% of women who have had an abortion indicate their religious preference is Christian..

The Study PDF

http://www.lifewayresearch.com/files/2015/11/Care-Net-Final-Presentation-Report-Revised.pdf

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Christian women in the US also have more car accidents than non-Christians and spend more time waiting in line at movie theatres than non-Christians. These are the sort of things one should expect in a country made up mainly of Christians.

There are also Christians who are in favour of gender equality, there are Christians who are anti-slavery and there are Christians who think that homosexuality is fine. There are zero aspects of the Christian faith which can't be rationalized away if the Christian doing the rationalizing can find some benefit in doing so.

 

[Shadowy Man]

There are zero aspects of the Christian faith which can't be rationalized away if the Christian doing the rationalizing can find some benefit in doing so.

This is a general human trait not limited to Christians.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

There are zero aspects of the Christian faith which can't be rationalized away if the Christian doing the rationalizing can find some benefit in doing so.

This is a general human trait not limited to Christians.

Ya, but Christians also go around using their Christianity as the basis of their morality, so when they rationalize away something which they should be saying is immoral, they're way more hypcritical about it than people in general are.

 

[Underseer]

Christian women in the US also have more car accidents than non-Christians and spend more time waiting in line at movie theatres than non-Christians. These are the sort of things one should expect in a country made up mainly of Christians.

There are also Christians who are in favour of gender equality, there are Christians who are anti-slavery and there are Christians who think that homosexuality is fine. There are zero aspects of the Christian faith which can't be rationalized away if the Christian doing the rationalizing can find some benefit in doing so.

Are you making the claim that the study did not factor in relevant population sizes?

Come on, we have seen plenty of studies showing the same result, and we all know that both Protestants and Catholics tell their teenagers not to use birth control. This is not that hard to figure out.

 

[ronburgundy]

90% of convicted criminals eat some form of bread on a daily basis.
What can we infer? Nothing. It isn't even a correlation because one of the variables (getting an abortion) doesn't actually have any variance.
What % of women who have never had an abortion are Christian, go to church, etc? We could infer that from population stats but we aren't given those either.

Turns out the population numbers from PEW surveys are almost identical: 70% "Christian" and 25% "Evangelical". I think the numbers run a bit higher for women than men, though.
So, we can likely conclude that being religious has little to no impact on the likelihood of getting an abortion. This is a useful fact to point out to religious moralists because it means that either being Christian has no impact on being a moral person (even as defined by the religion itself) or getting an abortion has nothing to do with being a moral person. At least one of those must be the case, but of course they could both be (and are) the case.

 

[Tom Sawyer]

Christian women in the US also have more car accidents than non-Christians and spend more time waiting in line at movie theatres than non-Christians. These are the sort of things one should expect in a country made up mainly of Christians.

There are also Christians who are in favour of gender equality, there are Christians who are anti-slavery and there are Christians who think that homosexuality is fine. There are zero aspects of the Christian faith which can't be rationalized away if the Christian doing the rationalizing can find some benefit in doing so.

Are you making the claim that the study did not factor in relevant population sizes?

Come on, we have seen plenty of studies showing the same result, and we all know that both Protestants and Catholics tell their teenagers not to use birth control. This is not that hard to figure out.

That seems to be the case. They had 8,000 numbers in there and factoring in that didn't appear to one of them.

 

[funinspace]

Christian women in the US also have more car accidents than non-Christians and spend more time waiting in line at movie theatres than non-Christians. These are the sort of things one should expect in a country made up mainly of Christians.

There are also Christians who are in favour of gender equality, there are Christians who are anti-slavery and there are Christians who think that homosexuality is fine. There are zero aspects of the Christian faith which can't be rationalized away if the Christian doing the rationalizing can find some benefit in doing so.

Are you making the claim that the study did not factor in relevant population sizes?

Come on, we have seen plenty of studies showing the same result, and we all know that both Protestants and Catholics tell their teenagers not to use birth control. This is not that hard to figure out.

That's kind of weird, as my wife's Protestant mother made sure her daughter was using birth control when she realized that we were seriously dating... And she didn't seem concerned about a grandson going on a week long road trip with his girlfriend a few years ago; and I don't think anyone had the fantasy that they were sleeping in separate rooms... And grandma, the grandson's family, and the grandson had at this point had been attending an independent evangelical church for a long time.