New York A 5987: Creates the human cloning prohibition act

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A05987 Summary:

BILL NOA05987 

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SAME ASNo Same As

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SPONSORFitzpatrick (MS)

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COSPNSRTague

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MLTSPNSRManktelow

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Add Art 32-B §§3230 - 3234, Pub Health L

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Creates the human cloning prohibition act which makes it unlawful for any person or entity, public or private, to intentionally or knowingly perform or attempt to perform human cloning; defines terms; makes exceptions; imposes penalties for violations.

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BILL NOA05987 

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02/25/2025referred to health

01/07/2026referred to health

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Go to topA05987 Text:

 STATE OF NEW YORK
 ________________________________________________________________________

 5987

 2025-2026 Regular Sessions

 IN ASSEMBLY

 February 25, 2025
 ___________

 Introduced by M. of A. FITZPATRICK, TAGUE -- Multi-Sponsored by -- M. of
 A. MANKTELOW -- read once and referred to the Committee on Health

 AN ACT to amend the public health law, in relation to creating the human
 cloning prohibition act

 The People of the State of New York, represented in Senate and Assem-
 bly, do enact as follows:

 1 Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as
 2 the "human cloning prohibition act".
 3 § 2. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that:
 4 At least one company has announced that it has successfully cloned a
 5 human being at the early embryonic stage of life, and others have
 6 announced that they will attempt to clone a human being using the tech-
 7 nique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer. Efforts to create human
 8 beings by cloning mark a new and decisive step toward turning human
 9 reproduction into a manufacturing process in which human beings are made
 10 in laboratories to preordained specifications and, potentially, in
 11 multiple copies. Creating cloned live-born human children, so-called
 12 "reproductive cloning," begins by creating cloned human beings at the
 13 embryonic stage of life, a process which some also propose as a way of
 14 creating human embryos for destructive research as sources of stem cells
 15 and tissues for possible treatment of other humans, so-called "therapeu-
 16 tic cloning". Many scientists agree that attempts at "reproductive clon-
 17 ing" pose a massive risk of either producing children who are stillborn,
 18 unhealthy, or severely disabled, and that attempting "therapeutic clon-
 19 ing" always results in the destruction of human beings at the embryonic
 20 stage of life when their stem cells are harvested. Creating new human
 21 life solely to be exploited via "reproductive cloning" or destroyed via
 22 "therapeutic cloning" in these ways has been condemned on moral grounds
 23 by many as displaying a profound disrespect for life.
 24 The distinction between "therapeutic" and "reproductive" cloning is a
 25 false distinction scientifically because both begin with the creation of

 EXPLANATION--Matter in italics (underscored) is new; matter in brackets
 [ ] is old law to be omitted.
 LBD08991-01-5

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 1 a human being at the embryonic stage of life, one destined for implanta-
 2 tion in a womb, one destined for destructive farming of its stem cells;
 3 regardless of its ultimate destiny, all human embryos are simultaneously
 4 human beings. It will be nearly impossible to ban only attempts at
 5 "reproductive cloning" if "therapeutic cloning" is allowed because:
 6 (i) cloning would take place within the privacy of a doctor-patient
 7 relationship;
 8 (ii) the transfer of embryos to begin a pregnancy is a simple proce-
 9 dure; and
 10 (iii) any government effort to prevent the transfer of an existing
 11 cloned embryo, or to prevent birth once transfer has occurred, would
 12 raise substantial moral, legal, and practical issues.
 13 Based on the above findings, it is the purpose of this act to prohibit
 14 the use of cloning technology to initiate the development of new human
 15 beings at the embryonic stage of life for any purpose, therapeutic or
 16 reproductive.
 17 § 3. The public health law is amended by adding a new article 32-B to
 18 read as follows:
 19 ARTICLE 32-B
 20 HUMAN CLONING PROHIBITION ACT
 21 Section 3230. Definitions.
 22 3231.