Study: Religious young women no less likely to have an abortion--less likely to report it.

[SemiCharmedQuark]

American Sociological Association
http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2009-06/asa-rdd052709.php

WASHINGTON, DC – Unwed pregnant teens and twenty-somethings who attend or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to obtain abortions than their peers from public schools, according to sociological research published in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

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While previous research has investigated the link between religion and abortion attitudes, fewer studies have explored religion's impact on abortion behavior. To fill this research gap, 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, according to Adamczyk.

Results revealed no significant link between a young woman's reported decision to have an abortion and her personal religiosity, as defined by her religious involvement, frequency of prayer and perception of religion's importance. Adamczyk said that this may be partially explained by the evidence that personal religiosity delays the timing of first sex, thereby shortening the period of time in which religious women are sexually active outside of marriage.

Despite the absence of a link between personal religious devotion and abortion, religious affiliation did have some important influence. Adamczyk found that conservative Protestants were the least likely to report having an abortion, less likely than mainline Protestants, Catholics and women with non-Christian religious affiliations.

[tanyev]

1. Might have something to do with the spectacular fail rate of the typical use

of abstinence-only as a contraceptive.

[asthmaticeog]

2. Study: Fanatical anti-abortion Christians are unabashed hypocrites.

Quelle fucking suprise. :eyes:

[provis99]

3. Christian hypocrisy knows no bounds.

Maybe Dante was right to condemn hypocrites to the lowest level of Hell.

[TNDemo]

4. I went to a conservative Christian college

and I can tell you there were plenty of abortions. They would voice their pro-life sentiments but when it came to them, they made the exception.