Go Figure
Recent stats on evangelicals and abortion, and American spirituality.
Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 3/01/2006 12:00AM
49%
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50%
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37%
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Self-described white evangelicals who call abortion "nearly always immoral."
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Americans who say they have had at least one religious or spiritual transformation.
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Teens who say they are not sure how to connect to their religion.
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70%
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35%
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83%
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White evangelicals who say abortion should be available but with more limits, or only after rape or incest, or to save a mother's life.
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Portion of those transformed who said they were not "born again."
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Portion of the teens above who want to make the connection more meaningful.
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Sources: Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center, B'nai B'rith Youth Organization.
March 2006, Vol. 50, No. 3