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.
It seems, however, that any Imam can rule on any individual situation, his ruling depending on what he sees as beneficial to Islam. For example, it was OK to abort babies resulting from Iraqi soldiers raping Kuwaiti women during the the first Gulf war, because those babies might, when they grow up, want to kill Muslims.
ITA! Given their history you would think it would different.
He needs to tell Jews like Gloria Steinem et al that.
I’m curious where your facts are from? I know many Jews who do and do not go to synagogue often. Most, if not all, have read the Torah.
Now, my “many Jewish friends” are certainly not “all Jews” in a focus group.
I’m referring to the “Cultural Jews”, who for the most part are atheists.
Yes, they are Jews by birth but not by faith. A lot of those out there...
Many “jews” are in fact atheists.
(Secular jews) How else could they be RATs and hate Israel?
Yeah, unfortunately many Jews today practice Judaism just as good as Hillary Clinton practices her supposed “Christian” faith.....
This report is deceptive. So- called “Jews” who accept abortion on demand are not Jewish. They may still carry Jesus- sounding names but that’s like Nancy Pelosi’s claiming to be Catholic. That doggie don’t hunt no more. (The Jewish attitude towards abortion is bit more nuanced than Catholicism’s but definitely starts out “choosing life” — with the only clearly- approved abortion bring in those rare cases where its necessary to save the mother’s life — beyond that limited case, respected rabbinic J views vary somewhat but it’s generally in dealing with similarly difficult cases and is NOT “pro- abortion” !! The bible is quite clear against the wholesale slaughter of innocent children as pushed by the likes of Obama, Hillary, pelosi and their ilk.
In pre-war Europe, there were two kinds of Jews. The Zionists, who wanted to form a Jewish Homeland, and The Bundists, who were socialists, who wanted world-wide revolution, and abhorred the idea of a Jewish homeland, because “the world was their home.”
That explains why many Jews are not particularly fans of the State of Israel.
I wonder if the “Jews” interviewed are synagogue attending Jews, or those who identify themselves as “Cultural Jews” who don’t attend synagogue or otherwise practice the tenants of Judaism?
Reform Judaism is mostly a left-wing political organization in the U.S. (look up their website sometime), so it makes sense that they'd find common ground with atheists on this topic. Orthodox Jews do not embrace abortion.
But it’s what G-d says that counts.
But don't you think it shouldn't matter in light of their history of persecution and genocide? I can't help but think there would be a certain sympathy/empathy towards the innocents who are being led to the slaughter. Regardless of religious belief/unbelief there remains the intrinsic human element. There has to be a spiritual blindness preventing people from recognizing that when you approve of the killing of helpless unborn babies, you are, in essence, cheapening ALL human life.
Many protestant denominations openly support and accept abortion—at least the leadership and organization. United Methodists, United Church of Christ, PCUSA and the Episcopal Church.
That intrinsic human element is not present in demons.
And I've come to believe, over many years and against my will, that a significant percentage of human bodies on the earth at this time do not contain human souls.
i’d be interested to know the percentage of Jews who actually avail themselves of abortions. i am guessing fewer than most. i am more interested in what people do-— than what they say can be done.
A person born to a Jewish mother is always a Jew regardless of their beliefs or observance. There is always hope for repentance. In the interim, they are desecrating God's name, as well as defaming Judaism.
Most Reform/secular Jews don't really care about Jewish law or the Torah/Bible, so they ignorantly assign false doctrine to what they fantasize Judaism has been for over 3,000 years.
True, a poll among United Church of Christ protestants would have yielded a different result than protestants as a whole, too. In both cases, they are only a small segment of their respective faith. The vast majority of protestants aren't UCC and the vast majority of Jews aren't Orthodox.
I do not understand how Jews can be OK with abortion. God clearly states in the OT He values life prior to birth.
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