12/28/2022
There is no federal law prohibiting human cloning; as of today, federal laws and regulations only address funding and other issues indirectly connected to cloning.
At the state level, however, there are laws directly prohibiting or explicitly permitting different forms of cloning.
The controversies relating to federal and state cloning policies have focused on three main issues: first, whether different kinds of cloning should be governed differently; second, whether taxpayer dollars should be used to fund cloning-related research; and finally, whether women may be paid by scientists for supplying eggs, and other questions related to the regulation of egg procurement.Â
Following the cloning of Dolly the sheep, there was a flurry of legislative activity as members of Congress from both parties sought to restrict the practice of human cloning.
None of the proposed bills was enacted into law.
Over the years, support for a few cloning bills did not break down along the usual party lines.
For example, in 2001, Representative James Greenwood (R.-Penn.) sponsored a bill that would have prohibited cloning-to-produce-children for ten years while permitting registered researchers to engage in cloning-for-biomedical-research; the bill, which garnered support from several Democrats, never came up for a vote.
Senator Orrin Hatch (R.-Utah) repeatedly introduced unsuccessful bills that would have banned cloning-to-produce-children but approved, with some restrictions, cloning-for-biomedical-research.
Note: On December 27, 2002, Clonaid’s chief executive, Brigitte Boisselier, claimed that a baby clone, named Eve, was born.
Media coverage of the claim sparked serious criticism and ethical debate that lasted more than a year. Source { Colnaid }
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