America: Reproductive Cloning
By Yankelovich Partners,
Yankelovich Partners
| 01. 01. 1998
| Do you approve or disapprove of the use of cloning for each of the following purposes? |
good idea / yes |
bad idea / no |
Don't Know |
| - To produce babies whose vital organs can be used to save the life of others? |
19 |
78 |
3 |
| - To provide infertile couples using test-tube fertilization with more embryos to increase their chances of conceiving? |
33 |
63 |
4 |
| - To make it possible for parents to have a twin at a later date? |
13 |
86 |
2 |
- Survey population: 1031 Americans
- Date of survey: 1998
- Source: Yankelovich Partners via Matthew C. Nisbet, "Public Opinion About Stem Cell Research and Human Cloning" Public Opinion Quarterly 2004 68(1):131-154; doi:10.1093/poq/nfh009, http://poq.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/full/68/1/131
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