Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10.1 exptools 1/6/84; site ihuxm.UUCP Path: utzoo!watmath!clyde!burl!ulysses!mhuxr!ihnp4!ihuxm!jtc78 From: jtc78@ihuxm.UUCP (Mike Cherepov) Newsgroups: net.abortion Subject: Why religion plays Religion and anti-abortionism - why the relation? Message-ID: <1202@ihuxm.UUCP> Date: Fri, 18-Jan-85 17:17:49 EST Article-I.D.: ihuxm.1202 Posted: Fri Jan 18 17:17:49 1985 Date-Received: Sat, 19-Jan-85 01:48:17 EST Organization: AT&T Bell Labs, Naperville, IL Lines: 23 ----------------- This is a question related to psychological origins of anti-abortion movement, not to whether the procedure is legal/moral. Somehow, the whole anti-abortion thing seems to find stronger support among the religious. While I am trying to avoid unnecessary generalizations it looks like these things have more then casual relation. I do not know of any psychological explanation for correlation between religiousness and anti-abortionism. If there is interest, several quick-and-dirty schemes can be suggested, but I am sure that content of certain religious dogmas can hardly account for anything - there is no commandment not to commit abortion, and for different people the scriptures justify crusades, prohibit medical treatments, prescribe chastising of kids (sometimes to death), order to love neighbor, ... In other words, the content of dogmas is hardly the major reason, and most certainly not the only one. Anyway, psychological insights and general comments are welcome. Mike Cherepov