Religious tradition among adults who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases by sources of guidance on right and wrong (2014) Switch to: Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases by religious group
% of adults who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases who are…
Sources of guidance on right and wrong | 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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Religion | < 1% | 19% | 51% | < 1% | 7% | 2% | 1% | 10% | 4% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 4% | < 1% | 7,770 |
Philosophy/reason | 1% | 30% | 17% | 1% | 5% | < 1% | 1% | 14% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 25% | < 1% | 929 |
Common sense | < 1% | 26% | 25% | 1% | 7% | < 1% | 1% | 15% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 21% | < 1% | 4,560 |
Science | 1% | 37% | 14% | 2% | 5% | 1% | 1% | 6% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 27% | 1% | 697 |
Don't know | < 1% | 25% | 37% | < 1% | 4% | 1% | < 1% | 12% | 3% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 12% | 2% | 357 |
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