109th Congress
1st Session
S.199
IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES
October 13, 2005
Introduced by Mr. Gutmann
S. A BILL
To amend the Public Health Service Act to prohibit human cloning.
Be it enacted by the Senate of the United States of America in the Congressional
Simulation assembled,
SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.
This Act may be cited as the “Human Genetic Replication Prohibition Act of 2005”
SECTION 2. PURPOSE.
The purpose of this bill is to amend the Public Health Service Act so as to add the
following to Part H, Section IV (42 U.S.C. 289 et seq.);
1. Definition in this section:
(1) HUMAN CLONING- The term `human cloning' means human asexual
reproduction, accomplished by introducing nuclear material from one or more
human somatic cells into a fertilized or unfertilized oocyte whose nuclear
material has been removed or inactivated so as to produce a living organism
(at any stage of development) that is genetically virtually identical to an
existing or previously existing human organism.
2. Prohibition- It shall be unlawful for any person or entity, public or private, in or
affecting interstate commerce, knowingly—
(1) To create, using genetic material taken from any given human being, alive or
dead, an entirely new life form which is genetically identical to that from
which the donor material was taken (otherwise known as HUMAN
CLONING).
(2) To participate in an attempt to perform the aforementioned HUMAN
CLONING