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Senate Bill S2186
2009-2010 Legislative Session
Sponsored By
(R, C, IP) Senate District
Archive: Last Bill Status - In Senate Committee Health Committee
- Introduced
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- In Committee Assembly
- In Committee Senate
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- On Floor Calendar Assembly
- On Floor Calendar Senate
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- Passed Assembly
- Passed Senate
- Delivered to Governor
- Signed By Governor
Actions
co-Sponsors
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP) Senate District
(R, C, IP, RFM) 24th Senate District
(R) Senate District
2009-S2186 (ACTIVE) - Details
- See Assembly Version of this Bill:
- A4311
- Current Committee:
- Senate Health
- Law Section:
- Public Health Law
- Laws Affected:
- Add Art 32-B ยงยง3230 - 3234, Pub Health L
- Versions Introduced in Other Legislative Sessions:
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2011-2012:
S2205, A2612
2013-2014: A3198
2015-2016: A6566
2017-2018: A6632
2019-2020: A5863
2021-2022: A5677
2023-2024: A6441
2009-S2186 (ACTIVE) - Sponsor Memo
BILL NUMBER: S2186 TITLE OF BILL : An act to amend the public health law, in relation to creating the human cloning prohibition act PURPOSE : To prohibit the use of cloning technology to initiate the development of new human beings at the embryonic stage of life for any purpose, therapeutic or reproductive. SUMMARY OF PROVISIONS : Amends the public health law by adding a new article 32-B to ensure the foregoing. EXISTING LAW : Current law is silent on human cloning. JUSTIFICATION : On November 25, 2001, a biotechnology firm in Worcester, Massachusetts known as Advanced Cell Technology, announced that it had cloned human embryos. The company's CEO, Mr. Michael West, insisted that the company did not intend to implant cloned embryos and grow them into babies; they sought only to create a new source for stem cells for research which can potentially aid in the cure of disease. Other scientists and groups however, have announced that they will try to
2009-S2186 (ACTIVE) - Bill Text download pdf
S T A T E O F N E W Y O R K ________________________________________________________________________ 2186 2009-2010 Regular Sessions I N S E N A T E February 13, 2009 ___________ Introduced by Sens. GOLDEN, DeFRANCISCO, FARLEY, LANZA, LAVALLE, MORA- HAN, PADAVAN, ROBACH, SEWARD, VOLKER, YOUNG -- read twice and ordered printed, and when printed to be committed 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: Section 1. Short title. This act shall be known and may be cited as the "human cloning prohibition act". S 2. Legislative findings. The legislature finds that: At least one company has announced that it has successfully cloned a human being at the early embryonic stage of life, and others have announced that they will attempt to clone a human being using the tech- nique known as somatic cell nuclear transfer. Efforts to create human beings by cloning mark a new and decisive step toward turning human reproduction into a manufacturing process in which human beings are made in laboratories to preordained specifications and, potentially, in multiple copies. Creating cloned live-born human children, so-called "reproductive cloning," begins by creating cloned human beings at the embryonic stage of life, a process which some also propose as a way of creating human embryos for destructive research as sources of stem cells and tissues for possible treatment of other humans, so-called "therapeu- tic cloning". Many scientists agree that attempts at "reproductive clon- ing" pose a massive risk of either producing children who are stillborn, unhealthy, or severely disabled, and that attempting "therapeutic clon- ing" always results in the destruction of human beings at the embryonic stage of life when their stem cells are harvested. Creating new human life solely to be exploited via "reproductive cloning" or destroyed via "therapeutic cloning" in these ways has been condemned on moral grounds by many as displaying a profound disrespect for life. EXPLANATION--Matter in ITALICS (underscored) is new; matter in brackets [ ] is old law to be omitted. LBD03205-01-9
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