Views about abortion among adults in New York by interpretation of scripture (2014) Switch to: Interpreting scripture among adults in New York by views about abortion
% of adults in New York 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% | 6% | 400 |
Word of God; not everything taken literally | 57% | 40% | 3% | 507 |
Not the word of God | 80% | 18% | 2% | 847 |
Other/don't know | 68% | 19% | 13% | 168 |
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