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Jun 21, 2016 · Even when a religious institution has a clearly stated policy on abortion, church members may not always agree. For instance, roughly half of all U.S. Catholics (48%) say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, in spite of the Catholic Church’s strong opposition.
Apr 12, 2024 · Opinions about abortion rights appear to be related to how often someone worships — just 34% of Catholics who attend mass weekly say abortion should be legal in all or most cases, whereas that...
Fifty-eight of the 78 respondents (74 percent) spontaneously spoke about the influence of religion and God in their decision to have an abortion, and in their experience of obtaining an abortion and reflecting on their abortion. This includes eight women who had no religious affiliation.
- Lori Frohwirth, Michele Coleman, Ann M. Moore
- 2018
Jul 17, 2020 · While many religions are perceived to condemn abortion [ 21 ], religiously affiliated women do have abortions—the majority (62%) of women who obtained an abortion in 2008 and 2014 claimed a religious affiliation [ 22 ]. Of these women, 17% identified an affiliation with a Mainline Protestant denomination [ 22 ].
- Jessica L. Dozier, Jessica L. Dozier, Monique Hennink, Elizabeth Mosley, Subasri Narasimhan, Johanna...
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- 2020
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Jun 2, 2023 · National polls repeatedly show that a majority of U.S. Catholics believe abortion should be legal in most or all cases. Yet the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops supports sweeping bans. Among Protestants, a solid majority of white evangelicals favor outlawing abortion. But most mainline Protestants support the right to abortion.
- dcrary@ap.org
- Global Religion News Director
May 27, 2021 · Even among those of us who boldly proclaim our dissent from Catholic teachings on abortion, the church still holds great power. That power has been on display since President Biden, a devout ...
Aug 17, 2022 · Numerous post-abortive women sit in the pews of evangelical churches. The Center for Disease Control’s National Survey of Family Growth ( NSFG) tells the story. From 2015–19, 12 percent of all evangelical women ages 32 to 49 who have ever been pregnant admitted to having an abortion. Of these, more than one in five had more than one abortion.
