. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. beings "is against God's ; Neverthe- less, differences in opinion about cloning are not dramatically shaped by differ- ences in religious belief. Catholics are 12 percent- age points more likely to favor banning human organ and tissue cloning than Protestants, and 9 percent- age points more likely than members of "Other" religious groups. (Jews, Muslims, and other religious groups were too infrequent in our sample to permit separate analysis.) Am
. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. beings "is against God's ; Neverthe- less, differences in opinion about cloning are not dramatically shaped by differ- ences in religious belief. Catholics are 12 percent- age points more likely to favor banning human organ and tissue cloning than Protestants, and 9 percent- age points more likely than members of "Other" religious groups. (Jews, Muslims, and other religious groups were too infrequent in our sample to permit separate analysis.) Among Christians, funda- mentalists were more likely to favor the ban than members of the mainstream denominations. But no religious group (including those who said religion was "very important" in their lives) exceeded the average level of support for the ban by more than 10 percent, or exceeded the support from those who said they were "not a member of a religion" by more than 17 percent. Although Catholics and fundamentalist Protestants provided significantly greater support for restrictions on cloning than other religious groups, differences about cloning - where they occur - were not primarily religious Conclusion Polls can be useful to policymakers for help both in identifying the public's values and prefer- ences with respect to an issue, and in anticipating the likely public reaction to possible proposals and the resulting debates The findings of our survey suggest that most Illinoisans have not thought very much about public policy toward cloning. Asked very broad questions about whether they approve cloning and whether they favor state regulation - without background information or reference to specific forms of regulation - they appeared strongly inclined to restrict cloning. But when respondents were given some background information and more specific options, their responses were highly differentiated. They remained massively opposed
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