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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The gender near-parity in pro-life sentiment is easy to explain: Women are more religious than men.
64 per cent of American women say they pray daily, compared with 43 per cent of American men. In Canada, those figures are 30 per cent and 28 per cent (which helps explain why abortion is much less of an issue here).
https://www.pewforum.org/2016/03/22/...r-gap-is-wide/
If this seems surprising, it's because the spokespeople who purport to speak on behalf of women are atypically irreligious, while the most prominent proponents of religious faith are atypically male. |
I'm so blown away by this statistic that I haven't stopped thinking about it since you posted it a week ago. To think grown ups that I interact with out here in the real world get down on their knees, clasp their hands together, and mumble out a prayer to a god they think can hear them and cares about them enough to intervene in their lives is astounding.
I was raised areligous. Obviously I've heard of praying and know what it's all about, but I've never thought of it as something a grown person would do. I picture kids in their jammies saying a prayer before bed. Fully grown adults, though? That's seriously weird.