Importance of religion in one's life among adults who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases by importance of religion
% of adults who say abortion should be legal 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 | 77% | 18% | 3% | 1% | < 1% | 2,938 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 51% | 39% | 7% | 2% | < 1% | 4,651 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 73% | 22% | 3% | 1% | 1% | 274 |
Not the word of God | 13% | 29% | 25% | 31% | 1% | 9,839 |
Other/don't know | 38% | 36% | 15% | 9% | 2% | 1,510 |
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