Aggregated News
|
Support
|
Oppose
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Don't know
|
|
| favor the government allowing scientists to do therapeutic cloning research to produce stem cells for treating life-threatening diseases* |
68
|
26
|
6
|
| - men |
71
|
-
|
-
|
| - women |
65
|
-
|
-
|
| - had at least a college degree |
73
|
-
|
-
|
| - had only a high school degree |
64
|
-
|
-
|
| want to outlaw the research |
30
|
52
|
-
|
* This level of support was reached when questioners were given a list of diseases-diabetes, Parkinson's disease and spinal cord injury-that could be treated with stem cells produced by the research.
Mary Cannon of Stop Cloning Now argued that this poll is flawed because 53% of respondents said they were not opposed to reproductive cloning. Other polls suggest 85%-90% of Americans oppose reproductive cloning.
- Survey population: 1,022 adult Americans
- Date of survey: April 18 to April 21, 2002
- Conducted by: Opinion Research Corporation International
- Margin of error: 3%
- Sources:
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- Alison McCook, "Do Americans Support Cloning? Surveys Conflict," Reuters (April 29, 2002, http://www.ama-assn.org/ama/pub/category/7884.html
- "New Poll Shows More Than Two Thirds of Americans Support Therapeutic Cloning Research...