One study showed that many women having abortions are Christians. Here are the statistics:
In the group studied, about 37 percent of those who got abortions are Protestant and 31 percent are Catholic. Among all American women of childbearing age, about 54 percent are Protestant and 31 percent Catholic.
To estimate the relative likelihood that women in those groups will obtain an abortion, researchers Stanley K. Henshaw and Kathryn Kost factored out race, ethnicity and age and found that the women who identified themselves as Catholic were 29 percent more likely than Protestants to have an abortion.
Barbara Vobejda “Abortion Reaches Wide Cross Section of Women; Study of U.S. Patients Seeking Procedure Finds Many Belong to Religious Groups That Oppose It” The Washington Post August 8, 1996
It is unknown why so many Catholics disobey their church and have abortions. Perhaps the churches, both Catholic and Protestant, need to have better outreaches for pregnant women in the congregations
