Individual states are filling the regulatory void created by the federal
government’s failure to provide comprehensive legislation governing human
biotechnologies. This is creating an often inconsistent policy patchwork.
State action is most evident in embryonic stem cell and cloning research. More than a dozen states have laws banning reproductive cloning, about half of which
also prohibit cloning for stem cell research. Dozens of similar bills are
introduced in other states each year.
In response to President Bush’s restrictions on the federal funding of human
embryonic stem cell research, several states initiated their own funded
research programs. California led the
way in 2004 with Proposition 71, which sets aside $3 billion of public funds
for stem cell research over ten years.
Eugenics damages yet to be paid out[North Carolina]by James Romoser, Winston-Salem JournalDecember 26th, 2009State money allocated for sterilization victims still has not been spent, and no substantive progress has been made on a special foundation that is to be established.
[Ohio] Bill will allow DNA testing on arrestby Sharon Coolidge, Cincinnati EnquirerSeptember 5th, 2009A controversial measure to expand the collection of DNA samples to those arrested on felony charges has passed the Senate and been endorsed by the governor.
New Report on Regulating Assisted Reproductive Technologiesby Osagie Obasogie, Biopolitical TimesJuly 24th, 2009A new report takes on the question of whether government should regulate assisted reproductive technologies and, moreover, whether such regulation would be constitutional.
"A bad idea whose time has apparently come"by Jesse Reynolds, Biopolitical TimesJune 23rd, 2009New York's stem cell program breaks with an international consensus, putting women's health at risk in order to pursue a discredited line of research.
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