That actually doesn't surprise me at all. I suspect that the vast majority of abortions are done by scared girls not ready to have a baby, or even (in most cases) to admit to family and friends that they're pregnant. Why should that be different among Christians (who place a high stigma on premarital sex) than anyone else?
Because, if they believe that abortion is murder, they are choosing to kill somebody over accepting the shame of admitting an unwanted, premarital pregnancy, and if sins of human desire like gluttony are to be graded lower than murder, I can't see why admission to a sin of desire resulting in pregnancy shouldn't be taken over the greater sin of ending a human life.
I don't know if you're right about the situation of "most" Christian women who have abortions. I don't know how to confirm that. But certainly, it can't be uncommon - many women who have abortions are in the position of being young and scared. Nor do I think abortion isn't, in many cases, the best thing that can be done for someone who finds themselves in that terrible position, regardless of what they do on Sunday. But there is a logical inconsistency between the belief and the action in this case, and given the social conservative (largely evangelical Christian) push in this country to allow states to prohibit abortion, I do think that inconsistency needs to be questioned.
To put it more succinctly: the ideas "I can see why a Christian would believe an abortion provider is a mass murderer" and "A young Christian woman who has an abortion was young and scared, and we should not be surprised" are not compatible with one another.
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I don't know if you're right about the situation of "most" Christian women who have abortions. I don't know how to confirm that. But certainly, it can't be uncommon - many women who have abortions are in the position of being young and scared. Nor do I think abortion isn't, in many cases, the best thing that can be done for someone who finds themselves in that terrible position, regardless of what they do on Sunday. But there is a logical inconsistency between the belief and the action in this case, and given the social conservative (largely evangelical Christian) push in this country to allow states to prohibit abortion, I do think that inconsistency needs to be questioned.
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