America: Reproductive and Research Cloning
By Viginia Commonwealth University,
Viginia Commonwealth University
| 11. 26. 2007
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 |
12 |
20 |
61 |
4 |
| using human cloning technology IF it is used ONLY to help medical research develop new treatments for disease |
19 |
28 |
15 |
32 |
5 |
Extensive crosstabs are available at pages 37 and 38 of the full survey report.
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