Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases who say they look to…most for guidance on right and wrong
Interpreting scripture | Religion | Philosophy/reason | Common sense | Science | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 68% | 3% | 24% | 3% | 2% | 6,426 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 49% | 7% | 37% | 4% | 2% | 4,603 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 60% | 4% | 25% | 2% | 9% | 564 |
Not the word of God | 13% | 15% | 56% | 14% | 1% | 1,957 |
Other/don't know | 34% | 10% | 45% | 6% | 5% | 763 |
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