United Kingdom: Human-Animal Hybrid Embryos
By The Times/Populus,
The Times/Populus
| 04. 04. 2008
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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