Racial and ethnic composition 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 race/ethnicity

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

Religious familyWhiteBlackAsianLatinoOther/MixedSample size
Baptist Family (Mainline Trad.)75%8%< 1%9%8%320
Congregationalist Family (Mainline Trad.)91%5%1%1%2%200
Episcopalian/Anglican Family (Mainline Trad.)89%6%1%2%3%486
Lutheran Family (Mainline Trad.)94%2%1%1%2%571
Methodist Family (Mainline Trad.)94%2%1%2%2%1,011
Nondenominational Family (Mainline Trad.)78%4%1%10%7%233
Nonspecific Protestant Family (Mainline Trad.)80%< 1%2%12%6%395
Presbyterian Family (Mainline Trad.)88%5%2%3%1%453
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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