Demographic profile of states with human cloning laws: morality policy meets political economy

Politics and the Life Sciences : the Journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences
Bonnie Stabile

Abstract

This analysis seeks to identify factors that may shape the policy stance - whether restrictive or permissive - that each state in the United States with a human cloning law in place takes toward human therapeutic cloning. The investigation also considers if cloning policy is more the product of morality politics or political economy. Results show that among states with human cloning policies in place, those with a greater biotechnological capacity, more permissive abortion laws, fewer Evangelical Protestants, and higher political liberalism rankings are more likely to have permissive cloning laws. A higher Roman Catholic population is strongly associated with permissive cloning laws, rather than restrictive cloning laws as originally supposed. Factors with morality policy and economic bases were both found to be associated with cloning policy outcomes. Results suggest that morality policies, though distinct in some ways, do share determinants with public policies based on political economy.

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Oct 7, 2009·Politics and the Life Sciences : the Journal of the Association for Politics and the Life Sciences·Bonnie Stabile
Jun 21, 2017·Medical Humanities·Anthea Gordon

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