Parent of children under 18 among Mainline Protestants who say abortion should be legal in all/most cases by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious family among Mainline Protestants who say abortion should be legal in all/most cases by parental status

% of Mainline Protestants who say abortion should be legal in all/most cases who are…

Religious familyParentsNon-parentsSample size
Baptist Family (Mainline Trad.)26%74%325
Congregationalist Family (Mainline Trad.)27%73%201
Episcopalian/Anglican Family (Mainline Trad.)23%77%489
Lutheran Family (Mainline Trad.)25%75%575
Methodist Family (Mainline Trad.)23%77%1,015
Nondenominational Family (Mainline Trad.)29%71%237
Nonspecific Protestant Family (Mainline Trad.)26%74%402
Presbyterian Family (Mainline Trad.)23%77%454
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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