Posted on 06/05/2016 11:45:46 AM PDT by Morgana
Gallup released a new poll this week that examines people’s positions on abortion based on their religious affiliation.
The poll asked people about a series of moral issues, including abortion and doctor-assisted suicide, and then examined their answers based on their religious affiliation. Researchers found major differences among religious groups, with Protestants, Catholics and Mormons taking a pro-life stance and Jews and the non-religious taking a more liberal stance.
Gallup reports:
Jews and those with no religious preferences have virtually identical views on the morality of abortion, doctor-assisted suicide, gay-lesbian relations and cloning animals. Jews are somewhat less likely than nonreligious Americans to believe having a baby outside of marriage is moral, 68% to 80%.
Mormons, Protestants and Catholics believe that abortion, doctor-assisted suicide and cloning animals are not morally acceptable practices. Mormons are more conservative than Protestants and Catholics on abortion, gay-lesbian relations, doctor-assisted suicide and out-of-wedlock births, but not on cloning animals.
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… The United States is one of the more religious western nations, and Americans’ religious identity influences the way they view matters of morality. The Mormon religion and many Protestant faiths promote strict moral codes that frown on abortion and out-of-wedlock births, with those values mostly endorsed by adherents of those religions. Catholic Church doctrine also instructs Catholics how to think about moral issues, but American Catholics’ views on many moral issues, including premarital sex, the death penalty and gay-lesbian relations, do not reflect the church’s positions. Nevertheless, Catholics tend to be more conservative on morality than those with no religion and Jewish Americans.
Mormons were the least likely to say that abortion is morally acceptable (18 percent), followed by Protestants (33 percent) and then Catholics (38 percent), according to the poll. Jewish responders were the most likely to say abortion is morally acceptable (76 percent), with the non-religious at a close second (73 percent).
The poll found that people are less opposed to doctor-assisted suicide, a growing threat in the U.S. The poll showed 30 percent of Mormons, 43 percent of Protestants and 47 percent of Catholics saying it is morally acceptable. Those who are Jewish and non-religious called the deadly procedure morally acceptable 73 percent and 77 percent of the time, respectably.
The poll confirms research from previous studies showing the influence religion has on people’s moral beliefs. The Christian tradition teaches that human lives are intrinsically valuable because they are created in the image of God, and this belief has led to a strong Christian presence in the pro-life movement.
A 2010 Pew poll found a strong correlation between religion and abortion:
On the issue of abortion, 26% overall say religion is the most important influence on their opinion, including 45% among abortion opponents.
Just 9 percent of those who support legalized abortion say religion affected their conclusion about it.
Religion is more influential on abortion views compared with other hot political topics as just 19 percent say religion influenced their stance on the death penalty, only 10 percent said it influenced their stance on poverty programs, 7 percent on immigration issues and just 6 percent on the environment.
Jews’ casual acceptance of premature death never ceases to amaze me.
They didn’t think to ask Muslims?
Not Orthodox Jews.
Muslims. They blow up so fast.
I’m surprised by the Jewish acceptance of abortion in light of the history of genocide of the Jewish people over the millennia often justified by claiming they were less than fully human with a right to life. I would think they would be more sympathetic to the plight of the weak and helpless at the mercy of those in power over them.
Muslims do not believe in abortion tell about the 8th birthday and then its all right because you can abort a non believer through the use of a suicide bomb.
Abortion is a holocaust of the truly innocent and helpless. It is interesting that Jews see no problem with it. One would think the Jews would take a different stance.
They thought of it - for a second.
Muslims reject the entirety of the liberal agenda, to the level of threatening death.
Can't have the precious snowflakes finding that out...
... prematurely.
I’m Catholic and my belief is that it is the same as killing, which is a Sin...Thou shalt not kill...
There's spiritual Jews and cultural Jews, and they are entirely different people.
LOL
In many ways Muslim views are “a blast!”
It is because a large number of Jews today in America are non-religious....They either don’t go to synagogue at all or only show up once a year. The non-religious Jews as pretty much the same as atheists.
American ‘jews’ are among the most leftist and degenerate in all the world. They dominate the porn industry, gay and straight.
They are the prototypical self-loathing Jew.
A poll among Orthodox Jews would have yielded a different result.
A better question would be what political party do these respondents identify with.
Most of these so-called Jews have never read the Torah in their lives, and haven’t stepped into a Synagogue in years.
Orthodox Jews are about 10% of the U.S. Jewish population. If the poll’s Jewish respondents were distributed accurately among the different movements, the result suggests that the Orthodox and Conservative respondents were against abortion, while the Reform and unaffiliated were for it.
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