1. If an 80 year-old woman has an 80% chance of dying within a year, should her access to expensive technologies (such as transplants) be restricted by government-provided health insurance?
Yes No
2. How strongly do you support or oppose these movements?
Strongly support
Support
Indifferent
Oppose
Strongly oppose
Don't know
environmental conservation
abortion rights
pro-life/anti-abortion
animal rights
right-to-die
national health insurance
trade union movement
drug legalization
secular humanism
transhumanism
anti-globalization
world federalism
3. Please tell me whether or not you think it should be possible for a pregnant woman to obtain a legal abortion if...
Yes
No
a) If there is a strong chance of serious defect in the baby?
b) If she is married and does not want any more children?
c) If the women's own health is seriously endangered by the pregnancy?
d) If the family has a very low income and cannot afford any more children?
e) If she became pregnant as a result of rape?
f) If she is not married and does not want to marry the man?
4. Do you believe that women with unplanned pregnancies should be permitted to have abortions if they want them:
1) during the first three months of pregnancy
2) during the second three months of pregnancy
3) during the last three months of pregnancy
5. Which position on human cloning most closely resembles your own?
Human cloning for therapeutic or reproductive purposes is a violation of human dignity and should be forbidden by law. Human cloning should be permitted for research and therapy, so long as the embryos are never implanted to make babies. Human cloning should be permitted for research and therapy, and reproductive cloning should be permitted once it has a higher success rate and is safe for the child. Human cloning, both therapeutic and reproductive, should be legal now.
6. When a person has a disease that cannot be cured, do you think doctors should be allowed by law to end the patient's life by some painless means if the patient and his family request it?
7. Medical researchers often use animals in painful and fatal medical experiments. Please consider the following list of animals and consider whether you believe researchers should be allowed to use this kind of animal in painful and fatal experiments that have a clear benefit to human beings (not cosmetics research, for instance), do not contribute to the extinction of the species, and for which no other animal can be used?
birds
cats
chimpanzees
dolphins
wolves
dogs
bears
fish
rats
8. Do you believe that parents, consulting with their pediatrician, should be permitted to discontinue medical treatments that may preserve the life of a week-old newborn, if:
the newborn has a normal brain, but has severe physical deformities that will cause death within several months
the newborn has a normal brain, but has severe physical deformities that will cause death within several years
the newborn has a normal brain, but has severe physical deformities that will cause death within twenty years
the newborn has a normal brain, and will live a normal life span, but has severe and disabling disfigurement of the face, arms and legs
the newborn has an able brain and body, but has a condition that will cause constant pain for the rest of his or her life
the newborn has an able body, but has such severe brain damage that s/he will only learn a few words and simple tasks, such as how to feed themselves
the newborn has an able body, but has such severe brain damage that s/he will never learn any tasks or how to communicate
the newborn has an able body, but has such severe brain damage that s/he will never wake up, and will always require a feeding tube
A woman may be unable to bear her own children, yet have fertile eggs. Today, doctors can take her eggs, and some sperm from her husband, and fertilize her eggs outside her body. These eggs can then be transplanted into the womb of another woman. These “surrogate mothers” or “birth-mothers” are usually married women with children who sign a contract to allow the genetic parents to adopt the child after birth. In return she accepts a payment, usually thousands of dollars, for her time and effort. 9. Do you believe that surrogate motherhood should be permitted? Yes No
A woman may be unable to bear her own children, yet have fertile eggs. Today, doctors can take her eggs, and some sperm from her husband, and fertilize her eggs outside her body. These eggs can then be transplanted into the womb of another woman. These “surrogate mothers” or “birth-mothers” are usually married women with children who sign a contract to allow the genetic parents to adopt the child after birth. In return she accepts a payment, usually thousands of dollars, for her time and effort. 9. Do you believe that surrogate motherhood should be permitted?
10. Whether you believe that surrogate motherhood should be permitted or not, in those rare occasions when the birth-mother decides that she wants to keep the child, do you believe that:
The birth-mother should be allowed to keep the child because she has a relationship to it, from pregnancy and birth, that is more important than the biological relationship of the genetic parents The birth-mother should be required to give the child to the genetic parents, because it is not really her child The birth-mother should be required to give the child to the genetic parents, because she already agreed to do so The child should go to the parents who will provide the best home
11. A 70 year-old person, who has not previously expressed an opinion towards whether s/he would want to be kept alive, has fallen into a coma. Should the person's relatives be permitted, in consultation with a doctor, to discontinue medical treatments that may preserve the person's life, if:
the person may awake from the coma, but has a terminal illness that will cause death within several months
the person may awake from the coma, but will be paralyzed below the neck for the rest of his or her life
the person may awake from the coma, but have severe and disabling disfigurement of the face, arms and legs
the person may awake from the coma, but will be in constant pain for the rest of his or her life
the person may awake from the coma, but will have such severe brain damage that they will only re-learn a few words and simple tasks, such as how to use a spoon
the person may open their eyes and move, but have such severe brain damage that they will never re-learn any tasks or how to communicate
the person will not awake from the coma, and will always require a feeding tube
12. Do you agree or disagree with the following statements?
Strongly Agree
Agree
Neutral
Disagree
Strongly Disagree
"Humans should not 'play God' through genetic engineering."
"A computer that thinks like a human being, and is not a threat to humans, should be granted human rights."
"God gave humanity dominion over the Earth."
"Human genetic engineering should be banned."
"Homosexuals should be allowed to use medical technologies to have children of their own."
"I never want to be kept alive by machines."
"The people running the country don't really care what happens to me."
"Humans should stop interfering in Earth's natural processes."
"The rich are getting richer, and the poor poorer."
"Doctors are only in it for the money."
"People should be allowed to experiment with drugs as long as they don't harm others"
"Most people with power try to take advantage of people like me."
"Those who violate God's rules must be punished."
“I would be interested in being frozen before death if I could be thawed later and given a new healthy body."
“I would be interested in having my mind recorded into a computer before my death if I could be a conscious person within the machine."
“Artificial intelligence will be such as radical threat to humanity that it should be banned."
13. Which term best describes your religious viewpoint?
Catholic Protestant Born-again or evangelical Christian Mormon Jewish Muslim Bahai Buddhist Hindu Pagan or animist Unitarian-Universalist Other religion Religious humanist Spiritual Secular humanist Agnostic Atheist None of the above Don't know
14. Which of these terms best describes your political beliefs?
Communist Left anarchist Libertarian socialist Green Social democrat/democratic socialist Radical Progressive US-style liberal Moderate Christian Democrat Conservative European Liberal Libertarian Anarcho-capitalist Far right (racial nationalist, [neo-]fascist, Third Wave, etc.) Other Not political
15. Are both of your parents still alive?
16. Have you ever had a life-threatening illness?
17. How old are you?
years
18. What is your gender?
Male Female Transgender
19. What is the last year of education that you have completed?
Some high school High School graduate Some college College graduate Masters degree Some doctoral work, professional degree or more
20. Do you have children?
21. What is your social class?
Wealthy Professional-Managerial Middle-Class Working Class Poor or Unemployed