(Angus Reid Consultants – CPOD Global Scan) – Many adults in the Show Me State support a specific type of stem cell research, according to a poll by Market Strategies for the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures. 66 per cent of respondents approve of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).
(Angus Reid Consultants – CPOD Global Scan) – Many adults in the Show Me State support a specific type of stem cell research, according to a poll by Market Strategies for the Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures. 66 per cent of respondents approve of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT).
Human stem cells come from embryos left over from in vitro fertilization, which are habitually destroyed. Some scientists believe the research could be useful in the treatment of several diseases, including Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s.
SCNT could be banned in Missouri if bills SB 160—which seeks to prohibit “the creation of a human being by any means other than by the fertilization of an oocyte of a human female by a sperm of a human male”—and HB 457—which seeks to “forbid the use of public funds and facilities for the purpose of human cloning”—pass in the Missouri General Assembly.
In 2001, United States president George W. Bush cited ethical questions in his rationale to ban federal funding for embryonic stem cell research. In a nationally televised statement, Bush said, “While we’re all hopeful about the potential of this research, no one can be certain that the science will live up to the hope it has generated.”
Polling Data
Do you approve or disapprove of somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)?
Approve | 66% |
Disapprove | 30% |
Source: Market Strategies / Missouri Coalition for Lifesaving Cures
Methodology: Telephone interviews to 600 registered Missouri voters, conducted from Feb. 3 to Feb. 6, 2005. No margin of error was provided.
