Appendix E. 
Legislators as Lobbyists: 
Proposed State Regulation of Embryonic 
Stem Cell Research, Therapeutic Cloning and 
Reproductive Cloning 
LORI B. ANDREWS, J.D. 
Distinguished Professor of Law, Chicago Kent College of Law, 
Illinois Institute of Technology 
The issue of research involving embryos and fetuses has 
been a matter of serious social concern for the past three decades. 
As each new scientific and medical development is introduced that 
affects embryos and fetuses, new state laws are proposed to deal 
with them. In the wake of the 1973 U.S. Supreme Court abortion 
decision in Roe v. Wade .^ for example, 24 states passed laws 
prohibiting research on human conceptuses.^ When in vitro 
fertilization (IVF) was accomplished, at least one state passed a law 
attempting to discourage the procedure.^ After Dolly the cloned 
sheep was bom, nine states adopted laws restricting human 
reproductive cloning.^ When researchers began creating and using 
human embryos for stem cell research, states began introducing 
laws to deal with that technology as well. In 2002 and 2003, dozens 
of bills were introduced in state legislatures on cloning and stem cell 
research. In total, 38 states considered such bills;® some states 
^ Roe V. Wade . 410 U.S. 113 (1973). 
^ See Lori B. Andrews, Medical Genetics: A Legal Frontier 70 (Chicago; 
American Bar Foundation, 1987). 
^ See description of the Illinois law in Lori B. Andrews, The Clone Age: 
Adventures in the New World of Reproductive Technology 24-28 (New York: 
Henry Holt, 1999). 
^ See Section lA, infra . 
® Alabama, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, 
Florida, Georgia, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisieina, 
Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New 
Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, 
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