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In 1998, 2001, 2004, and 2007, the United States House of Representatives
voted whether to ban all human cloning, both reproductive and therapeutic.
Each time, divisions in the Senate over therapeutic cloning prevented either
competing proposal (a ban on both forms or reproductive cloning only) from
passing. On March 10, 2010 a bill (HR 4808) was introduced with a section
banning federal funding for human cloning.[60] Such a law, if passed, would
not prevent research from occurring in private institutions (such as
universities) that have both private and federal funding. There are
currently no federal laws in the United States which ban cloning completely,
and any such laws would raise difficult constitutional questions similar to
the issues raised by abortion. Thirteen American states (Arkansas,
California, Connecticut, Iowa, Indiana, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan,
North Dakota, New Jersey, Rhode Island, South Dakota, and Virginia) ban
reproductive cloning and three states (Arizona, Maryland, and Missouri)
prohibit use of public funds for such activities.[61]
