{"id":470,"date":"2013-01-16T02:10:12","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T02:10:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/?p=470"},"modified":"2024-12-13T20:30:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-14T02:30:56","slug":"abortion-is-seen-as-morally-wrong-but-fewer-want-the-laws-changed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/abortion-is-seen-as-morally-wrong-but-fewer-want-the-laws-changed\/","title":{"rendered":"Abortion Is Seen as Morally Wrong, But Fewer Want the Laws Changed"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n\t

Source:\u00a0<\/strong>Dan Merica, “Survey: Few religious groups want Roe v. Wade overturned despite belief abortion morally wrong<\/a>,” CNN, 16 January 2013.<\/p>\n

“Slightly more than half (54%) of white evangelicals, according to the\u00a0Pew Research Center study<\/a>, favor completely overturning the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman’s right to have an abortion. No other religious group, including white mainline Protestants, black Protestants and white Catholics, agreed with completely overturning the ruling. In fact, substantial majorities of white Protestants (76%), black Protestants (65%) and white Catholics (63%) say the ruling should not be over turned, the survey found.”<\/p>\n

“A majority of every religious group sampled\u00a0–<\/strong>\u00a0white evangelicals (73%), black Protestants (58%) and Catholics (58%) and a plurality of white mainline Protestants (36%)\u00a0–<\/strong>\u00a0responded that abortion was morally wrong. Those respondents who find it morally wrong are also overwhelmingly likely to support overturning the law, compared with keeping it intact\u00a0–<\/strong>\u00a085% to 5%.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Sadly, because a sin has been socially accepted for so many years, people become comfortable with its presence. In theory, people still understand that it is wrong to take the life of a child. In practice, they don’t feel strongly enough about it to want society to change.<\/p>\n

“Behold, the LORD’S hand is not shortened, that it cannot save; nor His ear heavy, that it cannot hear. But your iniquities have separated you from your God; and your sins have hidden His face from you, so that He will not hear. For your hands are defiled with blood, and your fingers with iniquity; your lips have spoken lies, your tongue has muttered perversity. No one calls for justice, nor does any plead for truth. They trust in empty words and speak lies; they conceive evil and bring forth iniquity<\/em>” (Isaiah 59:1-4).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source:\u00a0Dan Merica, “Survey: Few religious groups want Roe v. Wade overturned despite belief abortion morally wrong,” CNN, 16 January 2013. “Slightly more than half (54%) of white evangelicals, according to the\u00a0Pew Research Center study, favor completely overturning the 1973 Supreme Court decision that affirmed a woman’s right to have an abortion. No other religious group,…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_seo_schema_type":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[42],"tags":[28,38],"class_list":["post-470","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-issues","tag-abortion","tag-morality"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":15816,"url":"https:\/\/www.lavistachurchofchrist.org\/cms\/can-you-give-me-information-on-the-difference-between-catholics-and-protestants\/","url_meta":{"origin":470,"position":0},"title":"Can you give me information on the difference between Catholics and protestants?","author":"Jeffrey Hamilton","date":"July 19, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"Question: Hello, I am a fellow brother and believer in Christ. 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