Q: How does a woman's religious affiliation affect her abortion decision?

• Women with no religious identification are four times as likely to abort as women with any religious identification.

• Approximately 54 percent of women ages 18-44 say they are Protestants, but only 37 percent of abortion patients say they are Protestants.

• The abortion rate for women who consider themselves "born-again" Christians or Evangelical Christians is much below the rate for other women (46 percent of the female population describes themselves this way, but only 18 percent of women aborting do).

Source: Family Planning Perspectives 28:140, July/August 1996