Views about abortion among adults who say humans evolved due to God's design by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who say humans evolved due to God's design by views about abortion

% of adults who say humans evolved due to God's design who say abortion should be…

Religious denominationLegal in all/most casesIllegal in all/most casesDon't knowSample size
American Baptist Churches USA50%46%4%136
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints34%64%2%185
Churches of Christ44%53%3%132
Episcopal Church75%24%1%158
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA)66%31%2%253
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.)49%48%3%200
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod57%43%1%143
National Baptist Convention70%26%4%144
Nondenominational evangelical29%69%2%155
Nothing in particular (religion important)55%40%5%517
Nothing in particular (religion not important)70%26%5%316
Presbyterian Church (USA)72%26%1%144
Southern Baptist Convention41%54%5%432
United Methodist Church57%40%3%560
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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