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Recent stats on evangelicals and abortion, and American spirituality.

Compiled by Ted Olsen | posted 3/01/2006 12:00AM

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49%	50%	37%
Self-described white evangelicals who call abortion "nearly always immoral."	Americans who say they have had at least one religious or spiritual transformation.	Teens who say they are not sure how to connect to their religion.
70%	35%	83%
White evangelicals who say abortion should be available but with more limits, or only after rape or incest, or to save a mother's life.	Portion of those transformed who said they were not "born again."	Portion of the teens above who want to make the connection more meaningful.

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Sources: Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life, University of Chicago National Opinion Research Center, B'nai B'rith Youth Organization.

March 2006, Vol. 50, No. 3

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