. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. insufficient to justify an infringement on the gamete-providers' procreational ;29 Courts in New Jersey and Washington similarly found constitutional rights to autonomy in procreation based on gamete donation. Other states have observed progenitors' autonomy to control the disposition of early embryos formed from their gametes, without interference from the state, by enforcing the couples' contracts to donate the early embryos to the rVF clinic for research
. The challenges of human cloning for public policy in Illinois. Human cloning; Human cloning; Human cloning; Public Policy. insufficient to justify an infringement on the gamete-providers' procreational ;29 Courts in New Jersey and Washington similarly found constitutional rights to autonomy in procreation based on gamete donation. Other states have observed progenitors' autonomy to control the disposition of early embryos formed from their gametes, without interference from the state, by enforcing the couples' contracts to donate the early embryos to the rVF clinic for research. In Illinois, a federal court recognized an affirmative right to procreation using new technology when it struck down an Illinois abortion law in 1990. The law prohibited any experimentation on a fetus unless the experimentation was therapeutic to the fetus. The court found that procedures such as embryo transfer were designed to aid a woman in achiev- ing pregnancy, yet were also experimen- tal and, because of the attendant risks, not therapeutic for the embryo. These procedures thus fell within the statute's prohibitions, a result that the court found violated a woman's constitutional right of privacy to make reproductive decisions. In the court's judgment, "within the cluster of constitutionally protected choices that includes the right to have access to contraceptives, there must be the right to submit to a medical procedure that may bring about, rather than prevent, ;30 These state and lower court decisions are based on rationales that point toward including human cloning within the protections of acknowledged constitu- tional rights. In response to advances in scientific knowledge, the courts have extended the right to procreate beyond traditional methods of human reproduc- tion to include ways of achieving preg- nancies that were unimagined only decades ago. The use of human cloning as a substitute method of providing a child in response
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