....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.
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.
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.