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Chart I 
State Cloning Legislation 
human 
cloning 
Michigan 
Mich. 
Comp. 
Laws 
§§333.2640 
1-06, 
333.16274, 
16275, 
20197, 
750.430a 
(2003) 
X 
X 
X 
X 
Use of human somatic 
ceU nuclear transfer 
technology (transferring 
the nucleus of a human 
somatic cell into an egg 
from which the nucleus 
has been removed or 
rendered inert) to 
produce a human embryo 
Missouri 
Mo. Rev. 
Stat. §1.217 
(2003) 
X 
X 
Replication of a human 
person by taking a cell 
with genetic material and 
cultivating such cell 
through the egg, embryo, 
fetal and newborn stages 
of development into a 
new human person 
North 
Dakota 
N.D. Cent. 
Code 
§§12.1-39- 
01-02 
(2003) 
X 
X 
X 
Human asexual 
reproduction, 
accomplished by 
introducing the genetic 
material of a human 
somatic cell into a 
fertilized or unfertilized 
oocyte, the nucleus of 
which has been or will be ‘ 
removed or inactivated, 
to produce a living 
organism vrith a humein 
or predominantly human 
genetic constitution 
Rhode 
Island 
R.I. Gen. 
Laws §23- 
16.4-1 -.4-4 
(2003) 
Sunset 
provision: 
July 7, 2010 
X 
Cell transfer 
and other 
cloning 
technologies 
not included 
in ban; 
mitochondria 
1. 
cytoplasmic 
and gene 
therapy not 
prohibited for 
research or 
animal 
creation 
Use of somatic cell 
nuclear transfer for 
pregnancy prohibited 
(transferring the nucleus 
of a human somatic cell 
into an oocyte from which 
the nucleus has been 
removed). 
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