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Here's some of the article from LifeSiteNews.com; (Emphasis and comments mine) Study: Private Religious School Students More Likely to Have Abortion Than Public

Washington, DC (LifeNews.com) -- A new study finds that women students at private, religious schools are not less likely than their counterparts at public schools to have an abortion. In fact, sociologist Amy Adamczyk published an article in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior saying they are more likely.

Adamczyk, an assistant professor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and the Graduate Center, City University of New York, conducted the study.

While previous research has investigated the link between religion and abortion attitudes, fewer studies have explored religion's impact on abortion behavior. (That's simple... because religion has been replaced with Me-ism.)

"This research suggests that young, unmarried women are confronted with a number of social, financial and health-related factors that can make it difficult for them to act according to religious values when deciding whether to keep or abort a pregnancy," she said. (Like a baby will interfere with clubbing and getting high on weekends.)

"Religious school attendance is not necessarily indicative of conservative religious beliefs because students attend these schools for a variety of reasons," (Kind of like the rationale that I've posted about before - "At least my kids don't have to go to school with spics and niggers.") Adamczyk said. "These schools tend to generate high levels of commitment and strong social ties among their students and families, so abortion rates could be higher due to the potential for increased feelings of shame related to an extramarital birth."

Despite Adamczyk's finding that rates of reported abortions were higher for young women educated at private religious schools, the type of religious school was not a factor: Catholic schools had similar rates as other religious schools. (Why not? More than a few 'Catholic Schools' have become nothing more than Obama Youth training camps. Case in point: the posting I did concerning St Mary's "Catholic" School here locally that had Obama symbol face paintings for the kiddies at their recent Fall Festival. By the way, since when do Catholics celebrate seasons? More neo-paganism wrapped in a thin veneer of Catholicism.)

Results revealed no significant link between a young woman's reported decision to have an abortion and her personal religiosity, as defined by her religious involvement, frequency of prayer and perception of religion's importance. ('Religious importance'? I think that's a typo... they must have meant impotence. I've actually had graduates of the only diocesan Catholic High School, Cardinal Gibbons HS, tell me "I'm proud to be a Democrat and I'm voting for Obama. I don't care what you or the Catholic Church say!" When I queried these individuals where they learned such an attitude, the response was always "most of my teachers at Gibbons taught me to think for myself!" )

Despite the absence of a link between personal religious devotion and abortion, religious affiliation did have some important influence. Adamczyk found that conservative Protestants were the least likely to report having an abortion, less likely than mainline Protestants, Catholics and women with non-Christian religious affiliations.

Regarding the impact of the religious involvement of a woman's peers, Adamczyk found no significant influence. However, Adamczyk did find that women who attended school with conservative Protestants were more likely to decide to keep their baby if pregnant in their 20s than during their teen years. (Not that long ago, a girl in a Catholic School uniform meant "don't waste your time, guys. She's a virgin 'til marriage." Now it's synonymous with the word 'slut'. Ahhh... a progressive Catholic education!)