Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who say abortion should be illegal in all or most cases by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition 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
Religious tradition | Religion | Philosophy/reason | Common sense | Science | Don't know | Sample size |
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Catholic | 42% | 9% | 38% | 9% | 2% | 3,387 |
Evangelical Protestant | 71% | 3% | 22% | 2% | 2% | 5,525 |
Historically Black Protestant | 55% | 5% | 35% | 4% | 2% | 774 |
Jehovah's Witness | 86% | < 1% | 9% | 3% | 2% | 185 |
Mainline Protestant | 45% | 8% | 42% | 3% | 2% | 1,975 |
Mormon | 75% | 2% | 18% | 3% | 2% | 474 |
Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | 16% | 13% | 56% | 12% | 2% | 1,453 |
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