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

% of adults who attend prayer groups 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 USA38%53%9%160
Assemblies of God20%77%2%251
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints18%80%1%459
Churches of Christ24%73%3%233
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)58%40%2%119
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)17%81%2%350
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod26%69%5%110
National Baptist Convention48%45%7%262
Nondenominational evangelical14%85%1%351
Nothing in particular (religion important)32%62%5%231
Presbyterian Church (USA)53%38%9%112
Southern Baptist Convention19%77%3%888
United Methodist Church43%52%4%418
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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