New York A05987 prohibits human cloning and imposes penalties for violations.
New York A05987, the Human Cloning Prohibition Act, makes it unlawful for any person or entity to perform or attempt to perform human cloning. It defines human cloning as human asexual reproduction to produce a living organism with a human or predominantly human genetic constitution. The act prohibits performing or attempting to perform human cloning, participating in such attempts, transferring or receiving the product of human cloning, and transferring or receiving oocytes, embryos, fetuses, or human somatic cells for human cloning.
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