Health and Safety Code section 24185

(a)

No person shall clone a human being or engage in human reproductive cloning.

(b)

No person shall purchase or sell an ovum, zygote, embryo, or fetus for the purpose of cloning a human being.

(c)

For purposes of this chapter, the following definitions apply:

(1)

“Clone” means the practice of creating or attempting to create a human being by transferring the nucleus from a human cell from whatever source into a human or nonhuman egg cell from which the nucleus has been removed for the purpose of, or to implant, the resulting product to initiate a pregnancy that could result in the birth of a human being.

(2)

“Department” means the State Department of Health Services.

(3)

“Human reproductive cloning” means the creation of a human fetus that is substantially genetically identical to a previously born human being. The department may adopt, interpret, and update regulations, as necessary, for purposes of more precisely defining the procedures that constitute human reproductive cloning.

Source: Section 24185, https://leginfo.­legislature.­ca.­gov/faces/codes_displaySection.­xhtml?lawCode=HSC§ionNum=24185.­ (updated Jan. 1, 2003; accessed Jun. 18, 2026).

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