Lots of Religious People Support Abortion Rights


It's so common to repeat an old falsehoods, "Abortion is a sin" and "Christianity Opposes Abortion." There is no such thing as religious agreement about abortion.

Polling among Jewish people show about 80% favor abortion in most circumstances. Of course, the central issue in abortion is the welfare of the mother. The Jewish faith is stronger on this principle than conservative Protestantism or Catholicism. It is one of the moral failings of the latter groups.

Jews, like all religious groups, has disagreements. Orthodox Jews are more anti abortion than other Jews.

Outside of Israel, Jews have not had a good experience when religion infiltrates government. Using religion to define when a human life begins is exactly the kind of religion in government they have learned is trouble. 

Liberal Protestant denomination join Jews in endorsing the rights of women. Conservative Christians join conservative Muslims in this effort of men to control women.

The audacity of conservative Catholics and Protestants to claim it is "Christian" to oppose abortion is over the top. Yes, I know they also claim it is not a religious issue because of fetus DNA. The DNA issue in a but one in a series of attempts to separate the issue from religion while also claiming it is a religious issue. 

Today I watched a documentary on drought in Southwestern U.S. We all know it has been bad but few recognize the real problem. Lack of snow pack and rain are not the issue. The area has been dessert for millions of years. The issue is the number of people living there. There are too many people compared to the amount of water. It's not complicated. Possibly the same U.S. population could use far less water and/or live in other areas that have more. The entire problem illustrates there are finite resources and world population cannot expand indefinitely. Abortion is one of several ways we need to have available for a brighter future. 

My hope is that better religions will replace worse ones or that secularism will replace all religions. Either way our country and the world need rational instead of magical thinking to solve our problems.


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