Gallup Poll: Sixty Percent of Americans Say Embryonic Stem Cell Research Morally Acceptable
By Dan Gilgoff, God & Country
Earlier today, I wrote that most Americans support embryonic stem cell research. But I was struck that a recent Pew poll on the subject indicated just a bare majority of support, with 51 percent of Americans saying it's more important to conduct stem cell research that might lead to new cures than to avoid destroying human embryos.
So it's striking to look at a 2008 poll that Gallup has dusted off that finds moral objections to embryonic stem cell research are relatively slack. It shows that more than 6 in 10 Americans say that the research is moral, while just 3 in 10 say it's morally wrong. Read the full Gallup report here.
This obviously doesn't translate into 60-plus percent support for federally funded embryonic stem cell research, but it suggests that Christian conservatives are losing the moral argument against the research.
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stem cells
The people against stem cells who use the excuse it's against their religion are hypocrites. A 2000-20001 survey showed that out of the ten thousand women , seventy eight ppercent were religous.Seriously were do they get off saying it's wrong?
stem cell
Hmmmm. Very interesting,I thought my previous comments would have caused an uproar in the christian pharasees in this room, condeming me to that proverbial lake of fire, they so strongly believe in! After all to disagree with them is cause for banishment and to be shunned!
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Steve, i don't believe god is in compitition with humanity to see who wins, and to believe that god is on your side in every argument is truly the ravings of a POMPOUS ASS such as yourelf. Try learning to THINK instead of learning to BELIEVE!!!
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