.thereidout Blog: The tendency to frame abortion access as a religious issue is as convenient as it is wrong.
. There’s a tendency to frame the issue as one of religion, which inevitably implies that conservative, Christian opposition to abortion is representative of religious views across the board — no matter the religion.. It’s mostly white conservatives who don't. And they haven’t earned dominion over God's word.The focus on religious opposition to abortion overlooks the perspectives and religious commitments of the millions of people who have abortions in this country.
Among all the religious groups surveyed, the one with the largest percentage of people who feel abortion should be banned in all cases was white evangelical Protestants — but only 24 percent of them feel that way, despite the group being one of the most conservative religious groups in the country. That group was also the only one in which a majority of people — 69 percent — said they feel abortion should be illegal in all or most cases.
All of the other groups surveyed reported majorities of people who think abortion should be legal in all or most cases, including white mainline Protestants, Black Protestants and Hispanic Catholics. Although the list of religious groups surveyed wasn’t exhaustive, we know various forms of
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