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The bill prohibits the destruction of human or non-human 
embryos “for the purpose of human cloning.”^- There is a cenain 
vagueness to that provision. If a researcher working on primate 
cloning generates data that might be useful to cloning human beings 
could he or she be prosecuted? 
2. Public funds 
Six states' bills would prohibit the use of public funds and 
facilities to participate in cloning or attempted cloning.^ 
3. Other M^ans tr> Dlscouragg^ mnnino 
Some states' bills attempt to discourage reproductive cloning 
by prohibiting either the sale or purchase^ or the shipment or 
receival of an ovum, zygote, embryo, or fetus to clone a human.^ 
Some states' laws attempt to discourage cloning through liability 
provisions. A Florida bill would create vast liabilities as another 
means to discourage cloning.” Participants in human reproductive 
cloning would be liable to “the individual, the individual's spouse, 
dependents, and blood relatives, and to any woman impregnated 
with the individual, her spouse, and dependents, for damages for all 
physical, emotional, economic, or other injuries suffered by such 
persons at any time as a result of the use of human cloning to 
produce the individual.” Even more dramatically, participants in 
human reproductive cloning would be liable to the cloned individual 
and his or her legal guardian for support until the age of majority (or 
longer, if the clone has “any congenital defects or other disability” 
related to the cloning). 
4. Exceptions 
NJ AB 2040 (2)(c). 
“ IN HB 1538; IN HB 1984: IN SB 138; IN SB 151; LA HB 472; MS SB 2747; MO 
HB 481; MO SB 191; MO HB 163; NY AB 4533; OK HB 1130. 
“ See , for example, CA SB 133. 
^ for example, CO HB 1073; FL SB 1726; KY HB 153; OK HB 1130; SC HB 
820; SC HB 3819; WI SB 45; WI AB 104. 
® FL SB 1726. 
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