Views about abortion among adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services by religious denomination (2014) Switch to: Religious denomination among adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services by views about abortion
% of adults who would rather have a smaller government with fewer services who say abortion should be…
Religious denomination | Legal in all/most cases | Illegal in all/most cases | Don't know | Sample size |
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American Baptist Churches USA | 42% | 55% | 3% | 231 |
Assemblies of God | 21% | 78% | 2% | 297 |
Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints | 18% | 80% | 2% | 507 |
Churches of Christ | 35% | 63% | 2% | 304 |
Episcopal Church | 75% | 23% | 2% | 272 |
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America (ELCA) | 57% | 40% | 2% | 403 |
Independent Baptist (Evangelical Trad.) | 27% | 70% | 3% | 576 |
Interdenominational (Evangelical Trad.) | 27% | 68% | 5% | 121 |
Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod | 37% | 61% | 2% | 343 |
National Baptist Convention | 61% | 34% | 6% | 109 |
Nondenominational charismatic | 20% | 79% | 1% | 126 |
Nondenominational evangelical | 16% | 82% | 2% | 556 |
Nothing in particular (religion important) | 58% | 37% | 5% | 983 |
Nothing in particular (religion not important) | 75% | 21% | 4% | 1,463 |
Presbyterian Church (USA) | 56% | 39% | 5% | 249 |
Presbyterian Church in America | 49% | 45% | 6% | 112 |
Southern Baptist Convention | 25% | 72% | 3% | 1,336 |
United Church of Christ | 72% | 25% | 3% | 108 |
United Methodist Church | 54% | 43% | 4% | 1,115 |
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