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Re: What are the current USA or new york laws on cloning
libfemme ( 12/13/2003, 13:48:13 )The US House of Representatives passed a bill banning cloning in 2002. The bill went to the Senate where it is still stuck in committee. It is not likely to be put to a vote because the majority of Senators oppose it.So by the 10th amendment, cloning is legal in the US.However,the FDA made an informal claim of authority over cloning by saying that any use of cloning technology to produce a human being requires advance FDA approval in the form of an investigational new drug (IND) application. However, this claim in not backed up by an regulartory statute and some people are of the opinion that it would not stand up in court. So far no one has tested it.With regards to New York, several bills that would ban cloning have been introduced in the state senate since 2001. None of them has made it out of committee. It is still legal to clone in the Empire State.From the National Conference of State Legislations: "Nine states have laws pertaining to human cloning. The issue was first addressed by the state of California, which banned reproductive cloning, or cloning to initiate a pregnancy, in 1997. Since then, seven other states-Arkansas, Iowa, Louisiana, Michigan, Rhode Island and Virginia and most recently North Dakota-have enacted measures to prohibit reproductive cloning. Louisiana’s law, however, expired in July 2003. Michigan and Iowa extend their restrictions to therapeutic cloning, or cloning for research purposes. Virginia's law also may prohibit human cloning for any purpose, but it may be unclear because the law does not define human being. Finally, Missouri forbids the use of public funds for human cloning research."
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