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S1909/A2840 is a bill that was passed by the New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
 legislature
New Jersey Legislature

The New Jersey Legislature is the U.S. state of New Jersey's legislative branch, seated in the New Jersey State House at the state's capital, Trenton, New Jersey....
 in December 2003, and signed into law by Governor James McGreevey on January 4 2004, that permits human cloning
Cloning

Cloning in biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce Asexual Reproduction....
 for the purpose of developing and harvesting human stem cell
Stem cell

Stem cells are Cell found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through Mitosis cell division and Cellular differentiation into a diverse range of specialized cell types....
s. Specifically, it legalizes the process of cloning a human embryo, and implanting the clone into a womb, provided that the clone is then aborted
Abortion

An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death....
 and used for medical research.

Views regarding the legislation
Supporters of the legislation hailed it as promoting medical progress through science, giving hope for the development of treatments for debilitating diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease , also called Alzheimer disease, Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of dementia....
, cancer
Cancer

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, and diabetes.






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S1909/A2840 is a bill that was passed by the New Jersey
New Jersey

New Jersey is a state in the Mid-Atlantic States and Northeastern United States regions of the United States. It is bordered on the north by New York, on the east by the Hudson River and the Atlantic Ocean, on the southwest by Delaware, and on the west by Pennsylvania....
 legislature
New Jersey Legislature

The New Jersey Legislature is the U.S. state of New Jersey's legislative branch, seated in the New Jersey State House at the state's capital, Trenton, New Jersey....
 in December 2003, and signed into law by Governor James McGreevey on January 4 2004, that permits human cloning
Cloning

Cloning in biology is the process of producing populations of genetically-identical individuals that occurs in nature when organisms such as bacteria, insects or plants reproduce Asexual Reproduction....
 for the purpose of developing and harvesting human stem cell
Stem cell

Stem cells are Cell found in most, if not all, multi-cellular organisms. They are characterized by the ability to renew themselves through Mitosis cell division and Cellular differentiation into a diverse range of specialized cell types....
s. Specifically, it legalizes the process of cloning a human embryo, and implanting the clone into a womb, provided that the clone is then aborted
Abortion

An abortion is the termination of a pregnancy by the removal or expulsion of an embryo or fetus from the uterus, resulting in or caused by its death....
 and used for medical research.

Views regarding the legislation


Supporters of the legislation hailed it as promoting medical progress through science, giving hope for the development of treatments for debilitating diseases such as Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease
Alzheimer's disease

Alzheimer's disease , also called Alzheimer disease, Senile Dementia of the Alzheimer Type or simply Alzheimer's, is the most common form of dementia....
, cancer
Cancer

Cancer is a class of diseases in which a group of cell display uncontrolled growth , invasion , and sometimes metastasis . These three malignant properties of cancers differentiate them from benign tumors, which are self-limited, do not invade or metastasize....
, and diabetes. New Jersey Assemblyman Neil Cohen
Neil Cohen

Neil Cohen is a former U.S. soccer defender . He played eight seasons in the North American Soccer League and six in the Major Soccer League. He also earned one cap with the United States men's national soccer team in 1976....
 lauded it as "not the most significant law we'll write this session—but this century." Paralyzed actor Christopher Reeve
Christopher Reeve

Christopher D'Olier Reeve was an American actor, film director, film producer, and screenwriter. He established himself early as a The Juilliard School-trained stage actor before portraying Superman in four films, from 1978 to 1987....
, who believed that such legislation may hasten the development of methods to reverse paralysis, testified in support of the bill.

However, Congressmen Chris Smith, Mike Ferguson, and Scott Garrett
Scott Garrett

E. Scott Garrett is a member of the United States House of Representatives. He is a Republican Party and has represented New Jersey's New Jersey's 5th congressional district Congressional District seat since January 2003 ....
 assailed it, saying, "This legislation will launch New Jersey blindly into the vanguard of terrible human-rights violations and grisly human experimentation." They also claim that, in practice, once a clone is developing in a womb, there is nothing that will prevent it from leading to "the world's first human clone being born and starting a horrible new era of human history." New Jersey's Catholic
Catholic

Catholic is an adjective derived from the Greek language adjective , meaning "whole" or "complete". In the context of Christianity ecclesiology, it has a rich history and several usages....
 bishops condemned the newly legalized process as violating "a central tenet of all civilized codes on human experimentation beginning with the Nuremberg Code
Nuremberg Code

The Nuremberg Code is a set of research ethics principles for human experimentation set as a result of the Subsequent Nuremberg Trials at the end of the Second World War....
...[It approves] doing deadly harm to a member of the human species solely for the sake of potential benefit to others."

See also

  • therapeutic cloning


External links

  • by Laura Mansnerus, January 6, 2004, The New York Times
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  • by Kathryn Jean Lopez
    Kathryn Jean Lopez

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    , January 5, 2004, National Review
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