A 2013 Gallup poll has observed how U.S. citizens view stem cell research and how their views have changed over a 10 year period.

Pollingreport.com lists recent polls from different organizations about stem cell research.

An Aug. 3, 2005, poll by the Pew Forum on Religion & Public Life and the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press found that by a nearly 2-1 ratio (57 percent to 30 percent) Americans said it was more important to conduct stem cell research to find new cures than to not destroy the […]

See CNN’s web page on stem cells for a general description and timeline of their prominence throughout history.

The Rev. Bob Edgar is general secretary of the National Council of Churches which works for ecumenical cooperation among Christians in the United States. Contact through director of media relations Daniel Webster.

Carrie Gordon Earll is bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family, which opposes all forms of cloning and embryonic stem cell research on the grounds that any embryo is a human life.

Mark F. Carr is theological co-director for the Center for Christian Bioethics at Loma Linda University in California.

Dr. Michael “Moshe” Akerman is was the director of the National Association of Judaism and Medicine, which looks at medical science in light of Jewish ethical tradition.

Maureen Trudelle Schwarz is associate professor of anthropology at Syracuse University in New York and author of Blood and Voice: Navajo Women Ceremonial Practitioners.