Views about human evolution 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 views about human evolution
% of adults who say abortion should be legal in all or most cases who say humans…
Religious tradition | Evolved; due to natural processes | Evolved; due to God's design | Evolved; don't know how | Always existed in present form | Don't know | Sample size |
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Buddhist | 71% | 12% | 5% | 11% | 1% | 228 |
Catholic | 40% | 31% | 4% | 23% | 3% | 3,463 |
Evangelical Protestant | 18% | 35% | 3% | 41% | 3% | 2,735 |
Hindu | 74% | 13% | 2% | 9% | 2% | 143 |
Historically Black Protestant | 19% | 33% | 3% | 42% | 3% | 1,010 |
Jewish | 66% | 17% | 4% | 11% | 2% | 734 |
Mainline Protestant | 36% | 32% | 6% | 22% | 4% | 3,816 |
Mormon | 27% | 38% | 2% | 31% | 3% | 171 |
Muslim | 30% | 27% | 3% | 38% | 2% | 131 |
Orthodox Christian | 42% | 22% | 3% | 28% | 5% | 102 |
Unaffiliated (religious "nones") | 72% | 12% | 4% | 10% | 2% | 5,823 |
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