February 2016 – Nearly half of women who have had abortions report that they attended church at the time of the abortion, according to statistics from LifeWay Research. A 2015 survey found that 43% of women who had abortions were attending at least monthly, 20% attended weekly, and 6% attended several times a week.
However, 76% say their church had no influence on the decision to have an abortion, and 52% say nobody at church knew they had aborted a baby.
Only 7% shared their decision to abort with someone at church. A majority of the women felt the church is not prepared to help with unplanned pregnancies, and they feared judgment, gossip, and inaccurate advice about pregnancy options from the church.
