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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.

onenewsnow.com, 11/28/15; lifewayresearch.com, 11/23/15