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Interesting Results :: Religious Girls More Likely to Get Abortion

Interesting Results :: Religious Girls More Likely to Get Abortion

Unwed pregnant teens and twenty-somethings who attend or have graduated from private religious schools are more likely to obtain abortions than their peers from public schools, according to sociological research published in the June issue of the Journal of Health and Social Behavior. â’This research suggests that young, unmarried women are confronted with a number of social, financial and health-related factors that can make it difficult for them to act according to religious values when deciding whether to keep or abort a pregnancy,â’ said the studyâ’s author, sociologist Amy Adamczyk, an assistant professor at the John Jay College of...

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Evangelical Children Gay Friendly but Still Anti-Abortion

According to a new poll for the PBS news program RELIGION & ETHICS NEWSWEEKLY, conducted by Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research Inc., although white evangelical Christians have voted overwhelmingly Republican for the last 20 years, younger evangelicals are less supportive of John McCain than evangelicals over 30. The September survey found that almost three-quarters (71%) of white evangelicals say they support McCain for president, compared to 23% who support Barack Obama. But the margin closes to 62-30 percent among white evangelicals ages 18-29. Younger white evangelical women are much less favorable toward Sarah Palin than their mothers, with only 46%...

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Bailout Could Be A Failure, Do Nothing

Michael Goldberg, associate professor of economics at the University of New Hampshire Whittemore School of Business and Economics, is prepared if the current bailout effort fails. Goldberg is the author of â’Imperfect Knowledge Economics,â’ which argues that the longstanding empirical failures of conventional economic models stem from their futile efforts to make exact predictions about the consequences of rational, self-interested behavior. Such predictions disregard the importance of individual creativity and unforeseeable sociopolitical change, thus usually failing to predict how markets behave. â’Economists mistakenly believe that they have found the way to specify how â’˜rationalâ’ individuals are supposed to behave....

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