Views about abortion among adults who say that government aid to the poor does more good than harm by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say that government aid to the poor does more good than harm by views about abortion

% of adults who say that government aid to the poor does more good than harm who say abortion should be…

Religious denominationLegal in all/most casesIllegal in all/most casesDon't knowSample size
American Baptist Churches USA54%43%3%225
Assemblies of God39%59%2%178
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints43%53%3%199
Churches of Christ47%51%3%221
Episcopal Church86%12%2%284
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)77%22%1%311
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)46%49%5%278
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod58%39%3%148
National Baptist Convention56%38%6%320
Nondenominational evangelical38%59%3%203
Nothing in particular (religion important)58%37%5%1,038
Nothing in particular (religion not important)79%17%4%1,707
Presbyterian Church (USA)77%20%2%238
Southern Baptist Convention40%55%5%572
Unitarian92%5%3%136
United Church of Christ77%19%4%142
United Methodist Church72%24%4%688
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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