Religious norms and values is helping to increase population". Justify
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1.) Religious norms and values [help] to increase population because they ban abortion.
This is true regionally (at a state level), where anti-abortion laws have made it difficult to procure an abortion by limiting the number of clinics available to pregnant women. But at a national scale, Pew Research Center has shown that mainline US Christians waffle 50/50 on opinion about the right to legal abortion, despite religious edicts like Humanae Vitae which clearly condemns the act of abortion and other sexual technologies according to their species.
There’s an even clearer reason not to correlate abortion opinion with religious opinion. According to the CDC, yearly abortion rates have been dropping since 1996, from 1.2mil/year to 650k/year (2014). Since 1996, church attendance rates have plummeted, and in general I think it’s safe to say America is less religious today than it was in ‘96. I admit that’s a self-evident truth and I’d entertain a good critique of it. But if you agree with me, you have to account for another reason abortion numbers are going down. I don’t think it’s an availability issue, because people who want an abortion will get an abortion, in one state or another. My speculative opinion is that science, namely prenatal research and the invasive optical abilities doctors have now, have humanized the fetus and made abortion less palatable to the average joe.