Post by Guadalupe on Sept 20, 2016 15:49:45 GMT -5
Monday, September 19, 2016 | Charlie Butts (OneNewsNow.com)
To end the practice of abortion, churches must become more involved and reach out to women facing unplanned pregnancies.
Students for Life's Institute for Pro-Life Advancement has released a new poll on discussing abortion within the church. Spokesperson Lisa Stover tells OneNewsNow a Gallup Poll found that 52 percent of women who have an abortion self-identify as Christians.
“And then in 2015 LifeWay Research found the number to be close to 70 percent, and they also found that 76 percent of those active, church-going women said that their church had no influence on their decision to abort,” she says. “And so this really shows that there's something lacking in our churches today.”
So if Christians attending church are not hearing the pro-life message and feel they have nowhere to turn within the church, she says, they tend to seek abortions.
“The poll also asked Do you have an active pro-life ministry in your church - and it showed that only 5.5 percent of Protestant pastors said that there is a pro-life ministry in their church,” she says. “So everyone looking at that number should really see that as a tragedy.”
Stover's conclusion is that if "the Christian community expects to end the practice of abortion and make it unthinkable, it won't be accomplished if there are not programs [in church] that teach the pro-life position.” www.onenewsnow.com/church/2016/09/19/churches-lag-on-pro-life-ministry