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A new study shows most Americans view abortion as a moral issue but do not feel as strongly about stem-cell research or in vitro fertilization as moral issues.
The Pew Research Center’s Religion & Public Life Project, in a study released August 15, noted that 49 percent of adults consider it morally wrong to have an abortion while 22 percent consider embryonic stem-cell research morally wrong.
Some 12 percent view the use of in vitro fertilization as morally wrong.
The findings were based on telephone interviews of 4,006 adults conducted March 21-April 18 with a margin of error of plus or minus 2.1 percentage points.
The survey’s results show that opinions on the morality of abortion differ widely among religious groups. Seventy-five percent of white evangelical Protestants and 64 percent of Hispanic Catholics consider having an abortion morally wrong. Fifty-eight percent of black Protestants and 53 percent of white Catholics hold this view while 38 percent of white mainline Protestants and 25 percent of religiously unaffiliated adults see abortion as morally wrong.
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