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

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

Religious denominationLegal in all/most casesIllegal in all/most casesDon't knowSample size
American Baptist Churches USA39%56%5%206
Assemblies of God17%80%3%259
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints19%80%1%407
Churches of Christ28%69%3%249
Episcopal Church70%27%3%187
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)53%44%3%292
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)28%70%2%501
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.)27%70%3%102
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod39%59%2%289
National Baptist Convention62%35%4%111
Nondenominational charismatic21%78%1%109
Nondenominational evangelical14%85%1%443
Nothing in particular (religion important)53%41%5%851
Nothing in particular (religion not important)73%24%3%1,083
Presbyterian Church (USA)50%45%5%166
Southern Baptist Convention26%71%3%1,190
United Methodist Church48%48%4%870
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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