The study commissioned by Care Net and conducted by Lifeway Research was quite extensive. There were approximately 90 questions. The report is 95 pages. Below are just a few of many interesting findings.
Methodology
A demographically balanced online panel was used for interviewing American women between May 6-13, 2015
Quotas and slight weights were used to ensure the sample matched national totals for ethnicity, age, income, and region
This nationally balanced sample was screened to only include those women who indicated that had ever had a pregnancy termination/abortion medical procedure
The completed sample is 1,038 surveys
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Seven in 10 (70%) women who have had an abortion indicate their religious preference is Christian
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52% of churchgoers who have had an abortion have no one at church who knows they have had a pregnancy terminated
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44 percent say they attended a Christian church at least once per month or more at the time they aborted their child.
20 percent of the respondents attended church at least once a week at the time of their first pregnancy termination.
6 percent said they attended church more than once per week.
54 percent said they rarely or never attended a church
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76% of women indicate local churches had no influence on their decision to terminate their pregnancy
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30% of women who have had an abortion indicate they have had more than one pregnancy termination or abortion
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49% of women who have had an abortion agree that pastors’ teachings on forgiveness don’t seem to apply to terminated pregnancies