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Thanks Katie for letting us know about this article: "States Pursue Cloning Laws as Congress Debates." by Sheryl Gay Stolberg. The New York Times, May 26, 2002, Section 1; Page 1; Column 1 Here is some more information from the article on states that have already passed or are considering cloning legislation . It states, "Six states have passed laws banning some human cloning. Twenty-two have considered measures this year to ban or restrict cloning, including some that already have laws." "In Iowa - all cloning experiments are a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. Legislation that would have banned cloning for any reason was defeated this year in Kentucky and Florida.Similar legislation was killed in New Hampshire and Oklahoma before it came to a vote. Michigan has outlawed cloning for research and reproduction. Missouri prohibits state financing for experiments intended to clone babies. Louisiana, Rhode Island and Virginia also prohibit reproductive cloning." PAN has also compiled a database of State-by- State Cloning legislation. For each state you can find the Bill #, Sponsor, bill Summary and Last Action. Here's the info on Wisconsin (as of March 2002) WI SJR 46 Chvala Commends Dr. James Thomson & his research team, the University of WI-Madison & WI Alumni Research Foundation for their pioneering work in embryonic stem cell research; asks the federal government to designate the Univ. of WI- Madison as a Nat’l Center of Excellence for Embryonic Stem Cell Research To Senate Committee on Universities, Housing & Gov’t Operations – 10/12/01 WI S 379 Meyer Prohibits human cloning and using state funding for cloning; cloning is defined as means intentionally create a genetic duplicate of an individual by transferring the nucleus from any cell of that individual into a human ovum from which the nucleus has been removed and intentionally using that human ovum to initiate a pregnancy that is intended to result in the birth of a human being To Assembly Committee on Health – 01/28/02 WI A 699 Kestell Prohibits human “cloning” - introducing nuclear material from one or more human somatic cells (a human cell with a complete set of chromosomes) into an egg cell, the nuclear material of which has been removed or inactivated, so as to produce a living organism, including a human embryo, having genetic material that is virtually identical to the genetic material of an existing or previously existing human organism Introduced – 01/04/02 Call PAN for specific information on your state: 800-850-4726 or email [log in to unmask] A question for Katie,and other legal minds -- what happens if a state bans all types of cloning research, but Congress ends up passing a law that either (1) bans reproductive cloning only or (2) specifically allows therapeutic cloning research. In either case would the federal law take precedence over the state law? Thanks Linda ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn