Views about abortion among adults who meditate at least once a week by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who meditate at least once a week by views about abortion

% of adults who meditate at least once a week who say abortion should be…

Religious denominationLegal in all/most casesIllegal in all/most casesDon't knowSample size
American Baptist Churches USA48%44%8%211
Assemblies of God24%73%3%285
Church of God in Christ36%57%7%109
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints22%76%2%399
Churches of Christ30%67%2%223
Episcopal Church77%21%2%207
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)62%34%5%243
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)27%69%4%362
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)39%58%3%104
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod40%57%3%211
National Baptist Convention51%42%6%304
Nondenominational charismatic24%75%1%114
Nondenominational evangelical18%80%2%354
Nothing in particular (religion important)55%39%7%729
Nothing in particular (religion not important)76%19%4%704
Presbyterian Church (USA)58%34%8%188
Seventh-day Adventist39%58%4%106
Southern Baptist Convention29%66%5%932
United Church of Christ76%20%4%104
United Methodist Church55%41%5%709
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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