America: Reproductive and Research Cloning
By Viginia Commonwealth University,
Viginia Commonwealth University
| 09. 14. 2005
How much do you favor or oppose...
| |
Strongly Favor |
Somewhat Favor |
Somewhat Oppose |
Strongly Oppose |
Don’t Know |
No Answer |
| allowing the cloning or genetically altering of humans |
3 |
12 |
18 |
63 |
2 |
2 |
| using human cloning technology IF it is used ONLY to help medical research develop new treatments for disease |
17 |
26 |
16 |
35 |
5 |
1 |
| using human cloning technology IF it is used to create human embryos that will provide stem cells for human therapeutic purposes |
11 |
23 |
18 |
41 |
6 |
2 |
How concerned are you that...
| |
Very concerned |
Somewhat concerned |
Not too concerned |
Not at all concerned |
Don’t Know |
No Answer |
| the use of human cloning technology to create stem cells for human therapeutic purposes will lead to a greater chance of human reproductive cloning |
33 |
35 |
18 |
8 |
4 |
2 |
Extensive crosstabs are available at pages 32-35 of the full survey report.
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