Religious women have abortions, too. And many faiths affirm abortion rights.

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By Zahra Ayubi, associate professor of religion at Dartmouth College, Rebecca Todd Peters, professor of religious studies at Elon University, and Michal Raucher, assistant professor of Jewish studies at Rutgers University-New Brunswick

The abortion debate is largely presented as a stark divide between secular people who support access to abortion care and religious people who oppose it. This false binary has obscured the diversity of religious positions on the issue, particularly of those who support abortion access. While Jewish support for abortion has been recognized on some occasions, support for abortion rights in Christianity, Islam and other religious traditions has largely been ignored.

With media attention trained on Friday’s March for Life in Washington and the upcoming anniversary of Roe v. Wade — perhaps the last, as an increasingly conservative Supreme Court might strike it down later this year — it’s important to correct this mistaken characterization of religious Americans’ views on abortion.

The focus on religious opposition to abortion overlooks the perspectives and religious commitments of the millions of people who have abortions in this country. Additionally, an imbalance in media coverage normalizes religious opposition to abortion, thus paving the way for particular theological beliefs to be codified into law. This ultimately denies the right of religious freedom to other faith communities whose beliefs about pregnancy, abortion and childbearing differ.

Robust media coverage of Christian opposition to abortion, in particular, has amplified the anti-choice Christian perspective in the public debate. But it’s actually a minority position; only 45 percent of all Christians think abortion should be illegal in most or all circumstances. The majority of white mainline Protestants (59 percent), Black Protestants (56 percent) and white Roman Catholics (52 percent) support legal access to abortion in all or most cases.

https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/religious-women-have-abortions-too-many-faiths-affirm-abortion-rights-ncna1287846
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very thoughtful piece

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2. It's only

the damn Christofascist Evangelicals and right-wing Catholics who are anti for everyone. Other religious people may be personally against it but keep their nose out of other people's business.