Would most people have an aversion to abortion? Yes. Is abortion used as birth control? No. People that are close to batshit crazy on this issue listen to all the lies and opt for every baby to be born regardless of individual facts. As usual, they make up the facts. Are there any efforts at all to take care of these babies that people want so desperately to be born? None at all. Not even a suggestion.

So much for knowing right from wrong. So much for Family Values and the GOP.

I suggest you are not referencing religion as a whole but proselytising ideologies such as Christianity and Islam.

[foreignpolicy.com]

Found this to be an interesting read of what happened in Romania in 1966. Looks like the Evangelical right is trying to make America look just like it.

I wish I could find a quote I came across recently on FB. It was along the lines of "It's easy to support the unborn. It's easy to talk about the sanctity of life because it's potential and not real and asks nothing of you while it's an abstract concept." But when it comes to the health of real mothers, the health of born children, the economic reality and cost of a new member of the family.....emotional and financial...all we get are crickets from the far right. Reproductive health care could be a primary focus for these people and politicians...but it isn't. They don't really want women to get free healthcare, free childcare, free quality education for their children, low cost housing and access to nutritious food...that would be socialism. And of course they don't want to face the reality of overpopulation and limited resources either...willfully blind to the reality of climate change and human impact.

The wonderful thing about religion is it’s total lack of standards. The Bible, having been a compilation of centuries of legends, tales and mysticism, lends itself to untold interpretations. Basically, you can read into whatever you like and any con artist can find gullible people they can convince that their interpretation is the true one. It allows every tribe, from the Amish to the snake handlers and everything in between to think they are the chosen and the only ones with the moral high ground. Are there non believers who don’t favor abortion? Of course! But the issue isn’t what you believe, it is the right of women to decide their body and how it is used. Anything else just relegates them to incubators. Life begins at birth. But the religious argument the every fertilized egg is sacred was the same argument used for years to forbid male masturbation: every sperm is sacred and possibly life producing. Except for some branches, most Christians have abandoned that ideology, but certainly not all of them. The best explanation was done by Monty Python in the Meaning of Life.

for a christian zealot to talk about prolife is hypocritical to say the least when their beloved bible basically instructs them to kill children and unborn babies, like in Hosea 13:16 The people of Samaria must bear their guilt, because they have rebelled against their God. They will fall by the sword; their little ones will be dashed to the ground, their pregnant women ripped open."

I have to admit that i bought into this dogma for 30 years. I believe that the only way you could really be moral was to be a christian. Throughout this time, I saw many christians do shady stuff like steal, adultery, lie and con people. Then i looked at some of the non-christians i knew. Some of them were the most honest people i knew and they were more trustworthy than alot of christians i knew. Now there are some christians that are very trustworthy too but there are also non-christians.