America: Reproductive and Research Cloning
By Viginia Commonwealth University,
Viginia Commonwealth University
| 11. 07. 2006
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 |
4 |
13 |
19 |
60 |
3 |
1 |
| using human cloning technology IF it is used ONLY to help medical research develop new treatments for disease |
19 |
26 |
16 |
35 |
3 |
1 |
| using human cloning technology IF it is used to create human embryos that will provide stem cells for human therapeutic purposes |
10 |
25 |
19 |
38 |
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 |
31 |
37 |
17 |
11 |
3 |
1 |
Extensive crosstabs are available at pages 31-34 of the full survey report.
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