Views about abortion among democrats and Democratic leaners by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among democrats and Democratic leaners by views about abortion
% of democrats and Democratic leaners who say abortion should be…
Interpreting scripture | Legal in all/most cases | Illegal in all/most cases | Don't know | Sample size |
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Word of God; should be taken literally | 43% | 51% | 5% | 3,427 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 64% | 33% | 3% | 3,568 |
Word of God; other/don't know | 43% | 39% | 18% | 275 |
Not the word of God | 86% | 12% | 2% | 7,310 |
Other/don't know | 65% | 25% | 10% | 1,102 |
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