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There are eight states that have enacted explicit laws to ban 
reproductive cloning,® and one state that prohibits only the use of 
state funds for reproductive cloning.^® (See Chart I). Of these eight 
states, four also ban “therapeutic” cloning.^^ Some states also ban 
shipping, transferring, or receiving for any purpose an embryo 
produced by human cloning. 
Under the existing reproductive cloning bans, some states 
ban the purchase or sale of an ovum, zygote, embryo, or fetus for the 
purpose of cloning a human being. Other states, however, have 
bans on payment for eggs, embryos, or human tissue that could also 
cover some of the transactions involved in reproductive or 
"therapeutic" cloning. 
California’s initial anti-cloning bill, adopted in 1998, created 
an advisory committee that met frequently over a five year period, 
heard extensive testimony from scientists and members of the 
pubhc, and issued a report.^^ 
® Ark. Code § 20-16-1001 et seq. (2003) (formerly AR SB 185); Cal. Bus. & Prof. 
§§16004, 16105 (2003) and Calif. Health & Safety §§ 24185-24187 (2003) 
(formerly CA SB 1230); Iowa Code § 707B.1-.4 (2003) (formerly LA SB 2046, 
became LA SB 2118); La. Rev. Stat. Arm. § 1299.36. 1-.6 (2003); Mich. Comp. 
Laws §§ 333.26401-06, 333.16274, 16275, 20197, 750.430a (2003); ND Cent. 
Code §§ 12.1-39-01 to 02 (2003) (formerly ND HB 1424); RI Gen. Laws § 23- 
16.4-1 to .4-4 (2003); Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-162.21 to .22 (2003). Two of these 
state laws could be evaded if a non-human egg was used instead of a human 
egg as the incubation for the somatic cell DNA. Ark. Code § 20-16-1001(5) 
(2003); La. Rev. Stat. § 1299.36.1 (2003). 
Mo. Rev. Stat. § 1.217 (2003). 
Arkansas, Iowa, Michigan, and North Dakota. 
Ark. Code § 20-16-1002 (A)(3); Iowa Code § 707B.4(l)(c); ND Cent. Code §§ 
12.1-39-01 to 02; Va. Code Ann. § 32.1-162.22(A) (for purposes of 
implantation). 
See , for example. Cal. Health & Safety Code §§ 24185(b); La. Rev. Stat. § 
1299.36.2(B). 
Lori B. Andrews, “State Regulation of Embryo Stem Cell Research,” in 
National Bioethics Advisory Commission, Appendix II at pages A1 - A13. 
“Cloning Californians?" Report of the California Advisory Committee on 
Human Cloning, January 11, 2002, Sacramento, California, available at 
http://www.sfgate.com/chronicle/cloningreport/. 
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