Posted on 06/02/2009 8:52:43 AM PDT by Alex Murphy
The killing of an abortion provider on Sunday raises again the extreme potential consequences of the nation's schism on this topic. It's a tough issue to reconcile on a personal level too, and a new study on the effects of religiosity on the decision to have an abortion reveals more inconsistencies.
Unwed pregnant teens and 20-somethings who attend or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to obtain abortions than their peers from public schools, according to research in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.
"This research suggests that young, unmarried women are confronted with a number of social, financial and health-related factors that can make it difficult for them to act according to religious values when deciding whether to keep or abort a pregnancy," said the study’s author, sociologist Amy Adamczyk of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.
(George Tiller, a 67-year-old physician who had long been targeted by anti-abortion activists, was shot and killed Sunday while attending church in Wichita, Kan.)
Adamczyk examined how personal religious involvement, schoolmate religious involvement and school type influenced the pregnancy decisions of a sample of 1,504 unmarried and never-divorced women age 26 and younger from 125 different schools. The women ranged in age from 14 to 26 at the time they discovered they were pregnant. Twenty-five percent of women in the sample reported having an abortion, a likely underestimate, Adamczyk said.
Results revealed no significant link between a young woman's reported decision to have an abortion and her personal religiosity, as defined by her religious involvement, frequency of prayer and perception of religion's importance. Adamczyk said that this may be partially explained by the evidence
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....Adamczyk examined how personal religious involvement, schoolmate religious involvement and school type influenced the pregnancy decisions of a sample of 1,504 unmarried and never-divorced women age 26 and younger from 125 different schools. The women ranged in age from 14 to 26 at the time they discovered they were pregnant. Twenty-five percent of women in the sample reported having an abortion, a likely underestimate, Adamczyk said....
....Despite the absence of a link between personal religious devotion and abortion, religious affiliation did have some important influence. Adamczyk found that conservative Protestants (which includes evangelicals and fundamentalist Christians) were the least likely to report having an abortion, less likely than mainline Protestants, Catholics and women with non-Christian religious affiliations.
I smell a hit piece.
Yeah, or maybe kids at religious schools are more likely to be bad kids like me whose parents pulled them out of public schools and stuck us in religious schools to try to keep them away from bad influences.
Worked, in my case.
How many people were murdered on Sunday? Why is this guy so great?
http://www.asanet.org/galleries/default-file/Jun09JHSBFeature.pdf
The paper itself, if anyone wants to plow through.
Maybe these women have something the others are lacking.....Shame. Being Christian doesn't mean one doesn't have the same temptations and faults as others....it just means you know the difference between right and wrong and what to do if you yield to temptation.
There was a particular Catholic high-school where I grew up, which was famous for having the easiest girls in town. “Legs spread wider than a ________ girl” was a phrase uttered by every teenage guy around. I knew families who would send their boys to public school, while their girls got sent to this Catholic school because they needed to “settle down”. The result was the highest concentration of over-sexed young Amazon women assembled in one location in the entire county.
I could see such a school having a high abortion rate.
Nevertheless, even if it is true, that doesn't change the fact that abortion is murder and should be outlawed.
As for the rest of the piece, FRiends, given Notre Dame's example, how could anyone come to any other conclusion?
You'd think she was just some screaching nutcase, but she's just nutty enough to get the real morons to give her a hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
Leftist hit piece. No objective thinker would give her any credibility.
That little detail carries the real message of the study: So-called fundamentalists and evangelicals are about the only people left who take Christian morality seriously. I bet that orthodox Jews would also have been pro-life in their personal decisions.
This study is reminiscent of the one which "found" that nominal Christians were just as likely to divorce as other groups. A later study found that Christians who regularly attend church were less likely to divorce.
But it also flows from their relativist view of morality. The thinking goes that if each person creates their own morality, then the only "sin" is to violate your own code (i.e hypocrisy). The fallacy is that morality is not relativistic but absolute and defined by God. (Note, not believing that doesn't make it false - that is another relativist notion).
Ultimately, though, it is, more often than not, much simpler. While a pure relativist might follow the path I describe, most on the Left are following an agenda that is based on fear and/or hate.
Yep, kids in private and home school settings outperform those in public schools by staggering margins. In the last 10 years, at least two of the class valedictorians from a professional school where I am employed, were home-schooled from grade school through high school.
Quite an agenda, indeed
topically speaking, Ms adamchick is a one trick pony
Pretty much the typical padded academic resume. Every time she farted, she put it down as a presentation.
All I really needed to see was “Ph.D. Sociology”. As a social scientist with a Ph.D., I find the “science” and “research” in Sociology appalling. It’s all about the leftist narrative - no longer any pretense of objectivity and detachment.
My own field has been moving in that direction for over 20 years, but there are a notable number of non-post modernists to fight the good fight.
Years ago, I had to gnash my teeth when it was discovered that Catholic girls in the Boston area had invented what they thought was a wily evasion of repentance. They had figured out that each birth control pill they took was a sin, but an abortion was a sin as well.
So with cringe worthy bad logic they figured it was better to have to repent just one big sin, than a whole bunch of time-consuming repentance for little sins.
***Pity you if you believe everything you hear, especially from “teenage guys,” who are far more apt to say the opposite of the truth to protect their fragile egos after being told “get lost” by the prettiest girls in the district.***
I am always amazed that some guys lie, and lie, and lie about their dates, and then actually believe OTHER guys when THEY lie.
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