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*Care Net is an evangelical Christian crisis pregnancy center organization operating primarily in the United States. As an anti-abortion organization its centers seek to persuade a person not to have an abortion. Headquartered in Northern Virginia, it is the nation's largest affiliation network of pregnancy centers.
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In the wake of the Planned Parenthood shooting in Colorado Springs, the findings of a survey just released by LifeWay, a Christian research group, reveal some interesting facts about a seemingly hidden culture within the Christian community. The survey explores the true relationship of religion and abortion and was co-sponsored by the pregnancy support organization Care Net*. These are some of their findings.
- 70 percent of the women they surveyed considered themselves Christians.
- Over 50 percent of the surveyed women who attend church regularly have kept their abortions secret from their church community.
- 40 percent of women surveyed feel that churches are not equipped to help them make decisions about unwanted pregnancies.
- Over 50 percent of the surveyed women who attend church regularly have kept their abortions secret from their church community.
- 40 percent of women surveyed feel that churches are not equipped to help them make decisions about unwanted pregnancies.
While these findings may be surprising, even more surprising is one of the main reasons these women seek abortions. Anti-abortion culture often lays the blame on the women who terminate pregnancies, citing their callousness, promiscuity, and sinful nature. However, it turns out the opposite is true. Roughly a third of women, regardless of their religious beliefs, cite the father of the unborn baby as the most influential person in their decision to terminate their pregnancy.
Many of the results of this survey are particularly damning of church culture, which shames women during these difficult times, rather than offering any guidance.
Roughly two thirds of the women surveyed agree that their pastors’ teachings on forgiveness do not apply to women who have terminated pregnancies. Over half of women believe that their Church is out-of-touch when it comes to helping them make decisions about pregnancy options.
Regardless of the choices the women in these communities make, they face judgment on all sides, and have to choose between secrecy and being ostracized, in which no ‘right’ decision can be made. This is why over half of women who regularly attend church keep their terminated pregnancy secret and only 7 percent of women say they’ve discussed their options with fellow churchgoers.
It is interesting to note that this survey was conducted by a Christian organization. Given results like these, many conservatives would say that the study is skewed to make the Christian hard-right look bad, but considering the direction the abortion debate has taken of late, they don’t really need any help in that area.
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The signature of a scientist was used, without his agreement, to argue that Séralini and his co-workers were wrong in their studies on Monsanto products, including GM corn.
British Prime Minister David Cameron has promised to deploy ten thousand military troops to the streets of Britain in order to support the police in defending Britain against ISIS terrorist attacks.
BY GLENN GREENWALD | The reality is that, on U.S. soil, George W. Bush perpetrated a wide array of radical abuses aimed at Muslims in the wake of 9/11. In the weeks after the attack, more than 1,000 Muslims and Arabs were swept up by the FBI and detained without charge, often by abusing the powers allowing for detention of “material witnesses.” Thousands of Muslim immigrants were deported from the U.S. in the months following the attack. Bush quickly and secretly implemented an illegal scheme of warrantless domestic eavesdropping aimed largely at Muslims.
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RUTH GLEDHILL: The world leader of Syria’s besieged Christians has issued a heartfelt plea to the West to “stop arming and supporting terrorist groups that are destroying our countries and massacring our people.”
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