Abortions More Frequent For Private Religious School Students

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I can't honestly say that I am surprised here. "Do as I say, not as I do" and all that...

Abortions More Frequent For Private Religious School Students

There's an interesting new study reported in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior showing that unwed pregnant teenagers and women in their 20s who attend or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to have abortions than young women who go to public schools...

One out of every four women, and that number is probably an underreported number.

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Fred Garvin's picture
Submitted by Fred Garvin on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 9:42pm.

The actual study states:

"Conversely, women from private religious high schools appear
more likely to report obtaining an abortion than women from public
schools."

This points to the fact that people attending religious schools are more likely to tell the TRUTH than their counterparts in government run schools when they are asked the question, "Have you ever had an abortion"?

The actual study is titled Understanding the Effects of Personal and School Religiosity on the Decision to
Abort a Premarital Pregnancy
and one paragraph in the study states the following -

Among women who conceive while unmarried,
those who have high levels of private
and/or public religiosity will be less
likely than secular women to obtain an
abortion.

Do you actually read anything before posting your blabber?

The government is like a baby's alimentary canal, with a
happy appetite at one end and no responsibility at the
other. -- Ronald Reagan


S. Lindsey's picture
Submitted by S. Lindsey on Thu, 06/04/2009 - 8:14am.

Snif probrally already knew this... I had the study as well and was about to post it when you did...
He just warped it to fit his..
ANTI-RELIGION views.. He takes an excrept from the Thomas Jefferson Street BLOG... and runs with it.. NO FACTS.. NO RESEARCH DATA..JUST AN OPINION that warped the original study..and he says I warp facts.. geeeze..

I will not lower my standards.. So UP YOURS..Evil

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Submitted by Evil Elvis on Wed, 06/03/2009 - 9:54pm.

Let the ladies rock the seaweed stick if'n they wanna.

Doing it in the back is how they prove they love you, not bearing children. Everybody knows it.

Can you believe the "debate" about abortion has gone on nearly 40 years longer than me bitching about black dudes on this forum?


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