Cloning OK: Media Confused?

[Jinx]

I just heard on the radio this morning (11/26/01) that Congress has not passed a bill to make cloning of humans illegal AND it presently resides at the State level where some States have outlawed it. Is this correct? I swore Congress outlawed it several years ago when it wqas quite apparent that scientists were getting too close to cloning a human. What’s the scoop?

Very confused by the press - which you can depend on them to be undependable anyhow

• Jinx

[Duck_Duck_Goose]

January 7, 1998.
http://www.cnn.com/TECH/9801/07/cloning.folo/

After Dolly was cloned, President Clinton set up an advisory group which recommended last year that Congress pass a law making human cloning illegal.

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Clinton issued an executive order blocking the use of federal funds on human cloning research and proposed a law banning such research for five years…

Several measures to ban cloning are awaiting action in Congress. In the meantime, the Food and Drug Administration says it has the authority to regulate human cloning research.

November 28, 2001.

http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/11/26/human.cloning/index.html

Last summer, the [U.S.] House of Representatives voted to ban human cloning and set penalties of up to 10 years in prison and a $1 million fine for those convicted of attempting to clone humans.

The measure was never taken up by the Senate, so it never became law.

I haven’t found anything yet offhand on which states may have banned human cloning, although Massachusetts, Missouri, and California have had legislation proposed.