Evangelicals are one step closer to the ultimate prize: ending abortion in America

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

60% : They saw smoking, booze and the specter of communism, not abortion, as the most immediate threats.
52% : Those who believed that contraception was an appropriate practice often had few qualms about abortion when the procedure was performed before "quickening" (the time when a woman begins to feel the fetus move).
51% : Since colonial times, most Protestants in the United States saw abortion as a legitimate form of birth control.
48% : Feminists in the 1960s made expanding abortion access one of their top priorities, pushing evangelicals to question anew the morality of abortion.
45% : They believe that stopping abortion is central to keeping the United States a holy and righteous nation, staving off the judgments of God, and surviving the coming apocalypse.
44% : Abortion has not always been controversial among American Protestants.
43% : Evangelicals hold some of the strongest anti-abortion views in the nation, and their opposition to abortion has remained steadfast.
38% : Other fundamentalists linked abortion with promiscuous sex.
38% : Although the Bible was silent on abortion, some evangelicals determined that they would not be.
37% : The "national sin" of abortion, he harangued, was going to force God to destroy the United States just as he had flooded the world in Noah's day.

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