. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. more accepting of cloning than the national public, or rather opposition to cloning has declined during this period Both may be true in some degree. An important question about these opinions is how much awareness they reflect - to what extent Illinois citizens understand what cloning is and why researchers have been seeking to develop cloning techniques. To explore this awareness (again using Group 1), we followed the above policy questions with two kinds of further que
. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. more accepting of cloning than the national public, or rather opposition to cloning has declined during this period Both may be true in some degree. An important question about these opinions is how much awareness they reflect - to what extent Illinois citizens understand what cloning is and why researchers have been seeking to develop cloning techniques. To explore this awareness (again using Group 1), we followed the above policy questions with two kinds of further questions: one determining whether respondents understood what cloning is, and another determining whether they were familiar with the possible benefits that are the presumed goals of cloning research. On the whole, Illinois citizens do not have a clear grasp of these matters. (See Table 2.) Only one-third of the respon- dents were able to answer correctly all three of a set of simple questions about what is and is not cloning. Most knew that using a cell from one sheep to grow a second sheep is cloning. But almost one- third failed to know that fertility drugs causing multiple births at the same time is not cloning, and almost half failed to know that using a cell from a human to develop a human tissue or organ is cloning. Since merely guessing would be expected to yield 3 consecutive correct answers about 13 percent of the time, the. number of respondents who actually knew what constitutes cloning is prob- ably considerably less than one-third. Similarly, only 45 percent of the respondents said they had heard of any possible benefits of clon- ing. Those who said they had heard of possible benefits were then asked what kinds of benefits they had heard of. Most men- tioned improved medical treatments, with a few mentioning better food production, scientific progress, or other benefits. In short, many Illinois citizens have only a vague sense of what cloning is - in particular, the
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