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ABC News August 16, 2001

Unlike stem-cell research, cloning is opposed by the majority of the people in the U.S.Six in ten believe that cloning animals and “therapeutic” cloning of human embryos should be illegal. “Therapeutic cloning” is the using a clone of a human embryo to develop medical treatments. Most people are indifferent that other countries have legalized “therapeutic cloning”. There are basically two sides to the debate. Advocates of cloning say that medical or agricultural breakthrough could occur. These breakthroughs are worth the ocassional moral dillema, they say. Opponents of cloning say that cloning is immoral, and maintain that therapeutic cloning could lead to genetic deficiencies and cloned phumans. Most people who oppose cloning mention their religious beliefs as one of the main reasons they do not approve of cloning, human or otherwise. Evangelical protestants are the group most likely to oppose cloning, while those who say they have no religion are likely to support cloning. Men are split 50-50 over the issue, but women who support cloning are outnumbered by almost three to one.

59% say that animal cloning should be illegal. 63% say that therapeutic cloning should be illegal. 87% say that human cloning should be illegal.

C. Aldred March 14, 2010