Sources of guidance on right and wrong among adults who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases by religious group (2014) Switch to: Religious tradition among adults who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases by sources of guidance on right and wrong
% of adults who say abortion should be legal 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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Buddhist | 7% | 30% | 42% | 15% | 6% | 228 |
Catholic | 18% | 11% | 57% | 12% | 2% | 3,463 |
Evangelical Protestant | 40% | 9% | 44% | 5% | 2% | 2,735 |
Hindu | 4% | 20% | 51% | 24% | 1% | 143 |
Historically Black Protestant | 40% | 6% | 47% | 5% | 2% | 1,010 |
Jewish | 11% | 17% | 52% | 16% | 3% | 734 |
Mainline Protestant | 20% | 12% | 57% | 8% | 2% | 3,816 |
Mormon | 38% | 6% | 43% | 9% | 3% | 171 |
Muslim | 22% | 9% | 43% | 20% | 6% | 131 |
Orthodox Christian | 14% | 15% | 60% | 9% | 3% | 102 |
Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | 4% | 19% | 57% | 18% | 2% | 5,823 |
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