Importance of religion in one's life among adults who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases by importance of religion
% of adults who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases who say religion is…
Interpreting scripture | Very important | Somewhat important | Not too important | Not at all important | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 89% | 9% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 6,426 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 72% | 23% | 3% | 1% | < 1% | 4,603 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 87% | 10% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 564 |
Not the word of God | 28% | 34% | 19% | 19% | 1% | 1,957 |
Other/don't know | 59% | 29% | 6% | 4% | 1% | 763 |
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