human cloning

144. Pizzulli, supra note 44, 529.

145. Gross, supra note 56.

146. Id. 147. Vatican calls for a global ban on cloning, Reuters North American Wire, February 26, 1997.

148. Kolata, supra note 50.

149. Kluger, supra note 78.

150. Amer, M.S., Comment: Breaking the mold: Human embryo cloning and its implications for a right to individuality, 4 UCLA L. Rev. 1659, 1666 (1996) (citing Elmer-Dewitt, P., Cloning: Where do we draw the line?, Time, November 8, 1993, 65).

151. Id. 152. Pizzulli, supra note 44, 498.

153. Pizzulli, supra note 44, 524-25.

154. Vatican calls for a global ban on cloning, Reuters North American Wire, February 26, 1997.

155. Id. 156. There are currently bills introduced in Alabama, California, Florida, Illinois, Maryland Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Oregon, South Carolina, West Virginia and in the U.S. Congress. See S.B. 511 (Ala. 1997); S.B. 1344 (Cal. 1997); H.B. 1237 (Fla. 1997); H.B. 1829 (Ill. 1997); H.B. 2235 (Ill. 1997); H.J.R. 28 (Md. 1997); H.B. 824 (Mo. 1997); A.B. 2849 (N.J. 1997); A.B. 5383 (N.Y. 1997); S.B. 2877 (N.Y. 1997); S.B. 1017 (Ore. 1997); H.B. 3617 (S.C. 1997); S.B. 410 (W. Va. 1997); S. 368, 105th Cong., 1st Session (1997); H.R. 922, 105th Cong., 1st Session (1997); H.R. 923, 105th Cong., 1st Session (1997).

157. For a discussion of these precedents, see Andrews, L.B., The legal status of the embryo, 32 Loy. L. Rev. 357 (1986).

158. See Parts VII and VIII, infra.

159. Fla. Stat. Ann. ’390.001(6) (West 1993); La. Rev. Stat. Ann. ’9:121 et seq. (West 1991); Me. Rev. Stat. Ann. tit. 22, ’1593 (West 1992); Mass. Gen. Laws Ann. ch. 112, ’12J (West 1996); Mich. Comp. Laws. Ann. ’333.2685 et seq. (West Supp. 1997); Minn. Stat.

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