A recent study—coupled with the untimely murder of a pro-choice physician—is causing a serious fracas within the religious community today. Sociologists at New York’s John Jay College have discovered that unwed women who get knocked up are more likely to get a shmashmortion (at the shmashmortion clinic) if they’ve been educated at a religious school.
No word on the rate at which these churchgoing harlots are zapping their unborn fetuses, but the study’s author, Amy Adamczyk, suggested that 25 percent of surveyed girls* admitted to having a shmashmortion by the time they were 26. Adamczyk says that “young, unmarried women are confronted with a number of social, financial and health-related factors that can make it difficult for them to act according to religious values” once they’ve got a bun in the oven. We don’t have an official stance on this story, but for all the good little Christian girls out there who read this blog: you can hide a pregnancy from your parents, but you can’t hide your shmashmortion from God.
*The survey included 1,504 unmarried and never-divorced women age 26 and younger from 125 different schools, ranging in age from 14 to 26 at the time they discovered they were pregnant.
