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      "id": 101253,
      "date": "2002-05-21",
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      "title": "Substantive Due Process and a Right to Clone",
      "summary": "As Congress continues to explore whether restrictions on cloning should be imposed, this report\nwill\nconsider whether a right to clone may be found under the Due Process Clauses of the Fifth and\nFourteenth Amendments. In past cases, the U.S. Supreme Court has recognized certain personal\nrights as being fundamental and protected from government interference. Some of those cases\ninvolve various reproductive matters, including procreation and childbearing. If a right to clone is\nfound to be fundamental, any infringement on that right would be evaluated with strict scrutiny, the\nmost rigorous form of judicial review, if challenged. Because government action often fails to\nwithstand strict scrutiny, the judicial recognition of a fundamental right to clone could raise\nquestions about legislation that would prohibit or limit cloning. However, if a fundamental right to\nclone is not found, government regulation of cloning would be subject to rational basis review, the\nmost deferential level of judicial review.",
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