Jews and Atheists Say Abortion is Morally Acceptable, Protestants, Catholics and Mormons Say No

lifenews.com ^ | May 31, 2016 | Micaiah Bilger

[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.

[Arrian]

A cardinal Principle of Conservatism is that the Family Unit is the linchpin of culture/society.
Does abortion help or harm the Family Unit?????
This should explain why the vast majority of Jews never were, are not now and likely never will be principled conservatives. Instead they will always gravitate toward the political hard left; among them Marx, most of Lenin’s Bolsheviks and msm yappers like Willie Kristol.

[boatbums]

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?

I was thinking more along the lines of it shouldn't matter. Even some Atheists and Agnostics are pro-life. The fact is that the Jewish people as a nation/race have seen enormous persecution and genocide as well as slavery in their many thousands of years history. I would think/hope it should make them more sensitive to the plight of the helpless innocents at the mercy of others and appeal to the intrinsic worth of human life whether born or unborn.

[Arrian]

A cardinal Principle of Conservatism is that the Family Unit is the linchpin of culture/society.
Does abortion help or harm the Family Unit?????
This should explain why the vast majority of Jews never were, are not now and likely never will be principled conservatives. Instead they will always gravitate toward the political hard left; among them Marx, most of Lenin’s Bolsheviks and msm yappers like Willie Kristol.

[daniel1212]

Moral Issues on Which Major U.S. Religious Group Disagree

Percentage saying each is "morally acceptable"

	No religion	Jewish	Catholic	Protestant	Mormon
	%	%	%	%	%
Abortion	73	76	38	33	18
Doctor-assisted suicide	77	73	47	43	30
Cloning animals	50	50	33	28	33
Gay-lesbian relations	83	85	62	41	28
Having a baby outside of marriage	80	68	59	47	25
Note: Gay-lesbian relations based on 2005-2016 data
2001-2016 Gallup Values and Beliefs polls

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.

Which are typically closest to Catholics, while evangelicals are yet far more conservative.

40% Roman Catholics vs. 41% Non-R.C. see abortion as "morally acceptable"; Sex between unmarried couples: 67% vs. 57%; Baby out of wedlock: 61% vs. 52%; Homosexual relations: 54% vs. 45%; Gambling: 72% vs. 59% http://www.gallup.com/poll/117154/Catholics-Similar-Mainstream-Abortion-Stem-Cells.aspx

• Committed Roman Catholics (church attendance weekly or almost) versus Non-R.C. faithful church goers (see the below as as morally acceptable): Abortion: 24% of R.C. vs. 19% Non-R.C.; Sex between unmarried couples: 53% vs. 30%; Baby out of wedlock: 48% vs. 29%; Homosexual relations: 44% vs. 21%; Gambling: 67% vs. 40%; Divorce: 63 vs. 46% ^

  [2000-2001] Catholic women had an abortion rate 29 percent higher than Protestants. 43% of women over age 17 in the 2000-2001 survey said they were Protestant, while 27 percent said they were Catholic. 13 percent said they were evangelical or “born-again.” Catholics were more likely to get an abortion: The abortion rate for Catholic women was 22 per 1,000 women; the rate for Protestants was 18 per 1,000 women, Alan Guttmacher Institute http://www.catholicleague.org/research/Catholic_women_and_abortion.htm; http://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/abortions-comparing-catholic-and-protestant-women/

• 75% of white evangelical Protestants consider having an abortion morally wrong, as do 64% of Hispanic Catholics, 58% of black Protestants, 53% of white Catholics, 38% of white mainline Protestants and 25% of religiously unaffiliated adults. http://www.pewforum.org/2013/08/15/abortion-viewed-in-moral-terms/

• White evangelical Protestants are the only major religious group in which a majority (54%) favors completely overturning Roe v. Wade. http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/roe-v-wade-at-40/

• 35% of white evangelicals and 52% of 59% of white Catholics see overturning Roe v. Wade as not that important. http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/roe-v-wade-at-40/

• 64% of white evangelical Protestants [blacks make up 6% of all evangelicals] believe abortion should be illegal in all or most cases, as do 52% of Hispanic Catholics, and 41% of white Catholics, and 39% of black Protestants, and 31% of white mainline Protestants. http://www.pewforum.org/2013/01/16/public-opinion-on-abortion-slideshow/

• 31% of faithful Catholics (those who attend church weekly, 2004) say abortion should be legal either in "many" or in "all" cases.. 2004, The Gallup Organization Gallup Survey for Catholics Speak Out: 802 Catholics, May 1992, MOE ± 4%;

• When ask to choose, three-fourths of all Protestant pastors surveyed said [2009] they are pro-life, and 13 percent said they were pro-choice. LifeWay Research; http://www.lifeway.com/ArticleView?storeId=10054&catalogId=10001&langId=-1&article=LifeWay-Research-protestant-pastors-share-views-on-gay-marriage-abortion

• 26 percent of Catholics (2007) polled strongly agree with the Church's unequivocal position on abortion Catholic World Report; survey of 1,000 Catholic Americans by Roper Center for Public Opinion Research at the University of Connecticut; http://www.adoremus.org/397-Roper.html

• 46 percent of Catholics who say they attend mass weekly accept Church teaching on abortion; 43 percent accept the all-male priesthood; and 30 percent see contraception as morally wrong. ^

• In 1992 0nly 13 percent of Catholics overall agreed that abortion could never be a moral choice. 41% said it was morally acceptable in rare circumstances and another 41 percent said it was morally acceptable in many or all circumstances. 70% of Catholics overall agreed that Catholics can vote in good conscience for political candidates who support legal abortion. http://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/19/us/bishops-meet-catholics-voice-differences-with-church-s-doctrine-poll-finds.html More.

[boatbums]

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.

The heart is deceitful above all things, and desperately wicked: who can know it? (Jeremiah 17:9)

[onedoug]

The Hebrew is “No Murder”. Twixt killing and murder there’s gulf of difference.

[Ransomed]

I wonder if you wouldn’t get the same result from any group that chooses to live in urban areas at the same frequency as Jews. I’d like to see urban/rural splits for all the faiths, I bet you would see the urban population more accepting of abortion every time.

Freegards

[definitelynotaliberal]

Same here. You would think they would be the first to step up in defense of the defenseless.

[definitelynotaliberal]

Thanks for posting that. It’s good to see.

[metmom]

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.

Based on what exactly?

Do you have any Scripture to back that up?

Or is it just "experience"?

[Elsie]

Twixt killing and murder there’s gulf of difference.

I'd like to thank the United States Government for protecting me and my kind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You see, 40 years ago, my odds of making it out of the egg, alive, were very poor; about 80% of us died. 

 (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rachel-carson-silent-spring-1972-ddt-ban-birds-thrive)

 

 

But a lady discovered our plight and wrote a book that addressed our problem,

and, in 1972, a law was ammended protecting us even further. (http://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/protect/laws.html)

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I find strange is that the same government passed a law the very next year that allowed for killing

of unborn, and apparently unwanted, humans.  Little ones still nestled safely in their Mother's womb.

Around 25% of them are dying before birth - on average nearly 3,300 - every day of the year.

 

 

I hear that by now, somewhere around 58 MILLION of them have perished.

Wouldn't that kind of mess up the humans plans for growth, and welfare, and

retirement?

 

 

 

 

 

Strange birds; these Homo Sapiens.  Perhaps they'll come to their senses

before they are ALL dead!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I'd like to thank the United States Government for protecting me and my kind.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You see, 40 years ago, my odds of making it out of the egg, alive, were very poor; about 80% of us died. 

 (http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=rachel-carson-silent-spring-1972-ddt-ban-birds-thrive)

 

 

But a lady discovered our plight and wrote a book that addressed our problem,

and, in 1972, a law was ammended protecting us even further. (http://www.fws.gov/midwest/eagle/protect/laws.html)

 

 

 

 

 

 

What I find strange is that the same government passed a law the very next year that allowed for killing

of unborn, and apparently unwanted, humans.  Little ones still nestled safely in their Mother's womb.

Around 25% of them are dying before birth - on average nearly 3,300 - every day of the year.

 

 

I hear that by now, somewhere around 58 MILLION of them have perished.

Wouldn't that kind of mess up the humans plans for growth, and welfare, and

retirement?

 

 

 

 

 

Strange birds; these Homo Sapiens.  Perhaps they'll come to their senses

before they are ALL dead!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Elsie]

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.

So it appears...

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"Both Catholics and Protestants are nothing less than the 'whore of Babylon' whom the Lord denounces by the mouth of John the Revelator as having corrupted all the earth by their fornications and wickedness. Any person who shall be so corrupt as to receive a holy ordinance of the Gospel from the ministers of any of these apostate churches will be sent down to hell with them, unless they repent"

 

 (The Seer, p. 255  Orson Pratt )     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Pratt

[Tennessee Nana]

Jews and Christians say No but Mormons have no religious literature forbidding abortion...

For abortion it is up to their Mormon “bishop” to “pray” to their Mormon gods to find out whether or not it wants the Mormon female to murder her baby...

[Talisker]

Or is it just "experience"?

Well Jesus drove demons out of people, and there's that "powers and principalities" Bible quote, and a few others, so demonic possession isn't exactly unknown to the Bible.

Other than that, yes, way down at the bottom of the list, written in small type, surround by cautions and exceptions, there are "just" my tiny, little, "experiences."

Kind of like the "experience" you use in interpreting the Bible. Except, of course, your "experiences" are written in much bigger type than mine.

Although there's a number of so-called humans I've dealt with that I'd love to see you interact with as if they were actually human. They'd enjoy that.

[MIchaelTArchangel]

So for an atheistic Jewess like Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky, abortion must be an act to celebrate?

[A_perfect_lady]

You know, maybe the Jews are right. Hey, they’re the chosen people, and the Bible clearly doesn’t much care about the unborn. Jesus never mentioned them specifically.

[heye2monn]

Mothers kill millions of babies in the womb because they have “defects.” Nazis killed Jews for the same reason.

Why can’t liberal atheistic Jews see the similarity?

[heye2monn]

God knit together the baby in the womb (Old Testament)

[A_perfect_lady]

So? He knit together lambs and calves, too, and we kill them.

[Mrs. Don-o]

When I read the Jewish Dutch diarist Etty Hillesum's "An Interrupted Life" I was discouraged that the first two Jews killed in the run-up to the Shoah (in her diary) were: one University professor suicide, and one unborn Jewish child: her own. Suicide and abortion: two Jewish deaths and the Nazis didn't even have to lift a finger.

So inexpressibly sad.