Views about abortion among adults with an education level of high school or less by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults with an education level of high school or less by views about abortion

% of adults with an education level of high school or less who say abortion should be…

Religious denominationLegal in all/most casesIllegal in all/most casesDon't knowSample size
American Baptist Churches USA44%51%5%236
Assemblies of God28%69%3%202
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints33%63%4%122
Churches of Christ35%61%4%196
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)56%41%3%143
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)36%59%6%326
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod47%48%5%121
National Baptist Convention50%44%6%204
Nondenominational evangelical16%82%2%142
Nothing in particular (religion important)46%47%7%902
Nothing in particular (religion not important)68%28%3%811
Southern Baptist Convention31%65%4%672
United Methodist Church54%40%5%382
Sample sizes and margins of error vary from subgroup to subgroup, from year to year and from state to state. You can see the sample size for the estimates in this chart on rollover or in the last column of the table. And visit this table to see approximate margins of error for a group of a given size. Readers should always bear in mind the approximate margin of error for the group they are examining when making comparisons with other groups or assessing the significance of trends over time. For full question wording, see the survey questionnaire.

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