Religious tradition among adults who say abortion should be legal 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 legal in all or most cases by religious group
% of adults who say abortion should be legal 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% | 34% | < 1% | 14% | 1% | 2% | 19% | 2% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 1% | < 1% | 6% | < 1% | 3,488 |
Philosophy/reason | 2% | 14% | 10% | 1% | 3% | < 1% | 4% | 14% | < 1% | 1% | 1% | 1% | 4% | 1% | 43% | 1% | 2,836 |
Common sense | 1% | 20% | 13% | 1% | 6% | < 1% | 3% | 18% | 1% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | 2% | < 1% | 33% | 1% | 9,964 |
Science | 1% | 18% | 6% | 2% | 3% | < 1% | 4% | 11% | 1% | 1% | < 1% | < 1% | 3% | < 1% | 48% | 1% | 2,418 |
Don't know | 3% | 16% | 15% | < 1% | 7% | < 1% | 5% | 19% | 1% | 2% | 1% | 1% | 3% | 1% | 24% | 3% | 506 |
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