Religious tradition 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 religious group
% of adults who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases who are…
Interpreting scripture | Buddhist | Catholic | Evangelical Protestant | Hindu | Historically Black Protestant | Jehovah's Witness | Jewish | Mainline Protestant | Mormon | Muslim | Orthodox Christian | Other Christian | Other Faiths | Other World Religions | Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | < 1% | 19% | 34% | < 1% | 18% | 1% | 1% | 15% | 1% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 8% | < 1% | 2,938 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | < 1% | 25% | 24% | 1% | 8% | 1% | 3% | 24% | 2% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 11% | < 1% | 4,651 |
Word of God; other/don't know | < 1% | 24% | 33% | < 1% | 7% | 1% | 2% | 20% | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | < 1% | 5% | < 1% | 274 |
Not the word of God | 2% | 15% | 5% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 4% | 13% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | 4% | < 1% | 52% | 1% | 9,839 |
Other/don't know | 2% | 20% | 13% | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 3% | 23% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | 25% | 2% | 1,510 |
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