Your comment about abortions being a “non-issue” to Asians caught my eye. I assume you mean Asian-Americans. I don’t have any data re: this but just some anecdotal observations of disturbing attitudes among some Korean-Americans Christians re abortion being wrong in a theoretical, abstract sense but perhaps an acceptable alternative in a “practical” sense. I wonder if it’s a “non-issue” because of it being acceptable (though not overtly).

One of too many examples: I had a passing discussion w/ an EM pastor of a PCUSA Korean-American church a few years ago re: abortion. He defended the PCUSA stand citing legal concerns (could he be more lame? killing Jews in Auschwitz was legal too). I don’t know much about KA churches. I do know there are many that are loyal to the PCUSA. Would you know if they’ve tried to reduce the denomination’s support of abortion? I’d be surprised if they did, but I hope I’m wrong.

On a slightly different note, I spent some time with a pediatric cardiac surgeon from Korea who was a visiting professor locally. He lamented about how few operations are done in Korea for cardiac anomalies (even fairly straight forward, totally correctable defects) because of rampant use of abortion to get rid of these “defective” children. Of course, the recent “rock star” status in S. Korea of scientists involved in embryonic stem cell research and human cloning speaks volumes as well.