Religious School Grads Likelier To Have Abortions

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/31048153/

The killing of an abortion provider on Sunday raises again the extreme potential consequences of the nation's schism on this topic. It's a tough issue to reconcile on a personal level too, and a new study on the effects of religiosity on the decision to have an abortion reveals more inconsistencies.

Unwed pregnant teens and 20-somethings who attend or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to obtain abortions than their peers from public schools, according to research in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior.

"This research suggests that young, unmarried women are confronted with a number of social, financial and health-related factors that can make it difficult for them to act according to religious values when deciding whether to keep or abort a pregnancy," said the study’s author, sociologist Amy Adamczyk of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

"This research suggests that young, unmarried women are confronted with a number of social, financial and health-related factors that can make it difficult for them to act according to religious values when deciding whether to keep or abort a pregnancy,"

Actually it just goes to show how ridiculous the "abstinence only/birth control is evil" meme is. These idiots teach kids that condoms and other forms of BC are useless. Then they presume the youth will just not have sex because they've been told not to. But of course they do, and because they've been told BC is useless, even more dangerous than not using BC (condoms actually spread disease you know) they do it unprotected, and they end up pregnant and/or with STDs.

Ignorance is not bliss, and the fundies keep proving it.

It's discussing women who attended religious schools, not women who claim to be religious.

Well, at least the excerpt is.

Who would design a human being to develop a sex drive at age 12 or 13, when the frontal lobe of the brain, which helps us understand consequences of our actions, isn't fully formed until age 25?