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http://www.populus.co.uk/the-times-the-times-poll-april-2008-060408.html

Medical researchers want to create embryos that are mostly human, but which contain a little animal material, because they think this will help them to understand diseases such as Parkinson's and Alzheimer's. It will be illegal to implant these embryos in a womb, or to study them for more than 14 days. Do you think these experiments should or should not be permitted?

  Should Should not Don't know
General population 50 30 20
- Men 58 26 17
- Women 43 33 24
- 18-34 49 31 20
- 35-54 50 31 19
- 55+ 50 27 23
- class AB (Managerial and professional) 60 23 17
- class C1 (Supervisory and clerical) 47 34 19
- class C2 (Skilled manual) 47 31 22
- class DE (Unskilled manual and unemployed) 45 31 24
- Labour 53 23 24
- Conservative 57 26 17
- Liberal Democrats 46 26 28
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