Many Catholics in the U.S. and Latin America Want the Church to Allow Birth Control
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Who cares what they want the Catholic Church to do? Most Catholics already use birth control.
https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-percentage-of-us-catholic-DXMMVWJGTAqx2juC9TNWeg
According to recent data, a large majority of U.S. Catholics use birth control methods that are not approved by the Catholic Church.
Specifically:
99% of sexually experienced Catholic women have used a contraceptive method other than natural family planning at some point in their lives
87% of Catholic women who are at risk of unintended pregnancy currently use a contraceptive method other than natural family planning
68% of Catholic women at risk of unintended pregnancy are currently using highly effective contraceptive methods like sterilization, IUDs, or hormonal methods.
Breaking it down further:
92% of Catholics have used condoms
68% have used birth control pills
23% have used emergency contraception (Plan B)
In contrast, only about 2-3% of Catholics use natural family planning methods approved by the Church.
These statistics show that contraceptive use among U.S. Catholics is very similar to that of the general population, despite the Church’s official stance against artificial birth control.
Speaking of “birth control” (Abortion)
AI tells us this.....
According to the latest data from the Guttmacher Institute, 24% of women who have abortions in the United States identify as Catholic. This percentage is nearly equivalent to the proportion of U.S. women who identified as Catholic (22%) in a 2014 Pew Research Center survey.
Breaking it down further:
92% of Catholics have used condoms
68% have used birth control pills
23% have used emergency contraception (Plan B)
As for Evangelicals, research sadly says:
According to recent data, 74% of evangelic
al Protestant women use an IUD or a hormonal form of birth control like the pill2 . Additionally, among evangelical Protestant women who are at risk of unintended pregnancy, 36% use sterilization, 15% use long-acting reversible contraceptives, and 20% use hormonal methods1 . Overall, 99.3% of evangelical Protestant women have ever used a contraceptive method other than natural family planning - https://www.perplexity.ai/search/what-percent-evangelicals-use-qPvpqedQRsaOpK0QuSbAjg