I'd be laughing, but it's really not funny.

[kuangning]

Via aris_tgd:

Although few studies have been made of this phenomenon, a study done in 1981[1] found that 24% of women who had abortions considered the procedure morally wrong, and 7% of women who'd had abortions disagreed with the statement, "Any woman who wants an abortion should be permitted to obtain it legally." A 1994/95 survey[2,3] of nearly 10,000 abortion patients showed 18% of women having abortions are born-again or Evangelical Christians. Many of these women are likely anti-choice. The survey also showed that Catholic women have an abortion rate 29% higher than Protestant women. A Planned Parenthood handbook on abortion notes that nearly half of all abortions are for women who describe themselves as born-again Christian, Evangelical Christian, or Catholic.[4]

Comments

[fearghaill.livejournal.com]

Might that have something to do with a certain archaic stance on birth control greatly increasing the number of unplanned and unwanted pregnancies?

[kuangning]

It might indeed. But don't say that where they might hear you; we all know that giving information about birth control turns young people into sluts, after all.

[fearghaill.livejournal.com]

As does vaccinating them against easily preventable diseases.

[kuangning]

Mmhmm.

[zibblsnrt.livejournal.com]

Dammit, I'd almost forgotten about that. Now I'm pissed again. %P

[salinn.livejournal.com]

Don't you love that "it'll never happen to me" mentality? Argh.

[kuangning]

It's more a certain self-serving bias (in the clinical sense of that term) -- when we fail to meet our own ideals, we have "reasons" for doing so. When other people fail to meet them, we don't see their reasons as valid. "MY circumstances are special, and I should be allowed one, but SHE'S just using it as birth control."