Report - First human clone born - It's a girl

AFP via Babelfish ^ | December 27, 2002

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Birth of a small girl obtained by cloning, according to the sect of the raéliens

Friday December 27, 2002 - 1h49 GMT

MIAMI (the United States), 26 déc (AFP) - the scientist Frenchwoman and member of the sect of the raéliens Brigitte Boisselier affirmed Thursday evening with the AFP to have put at the world a baby obtained by the technique of the cloning.

The baby, a small girl, came in the world "today" (Thursday) by Caesarean. "Ca they passed very well", was restricted to affirm Mrs. Boisselier, president of the company of human cloning Clonaid, joined by telephone in Miami (Florida, south-east of the United States).

The effort of the raéliens to put at the world the first cloné baby having been realized in the greatest secrecy, it was not possible, in the absence of a scientific publication in the code of practice, to obtain for the moment an unspecified independent scientific confirmation that the baby was well a clone.

Questioned on the circumstances of this birth, it scientific Frenchwoman refused to give further information immediately more, in particular the birthplace.

"I prefer not in saying more for the moment", has it says, by adding that it would make a public presentation Friday in Florida.

It did not specify either if it would introduce the baby at this occasion.

November 27, Mrs. Boisselier had indicated to the AFP that this birth was awaited by an American couple.

If this birth were confirmed of independent scientific source, it would be about the first baby obtained by the discussed technique of the human cloning and whose birth will have been publicly announced.

[Puddleglum]

Thanks for the thoughtful reply, especially in regards to matters of the spirit. I had not thought about this much. I fear we're finally in an age where a handful of elite can alter the definition of human forever. I think it is important to keep religious discourses alive if only to enable humans to imagine themselves as more than workers, consumers, biomechanisms, a collection of appetites, etc. Both revealed religion and introspective analyses on the mystery of human nature should be preserved. Of course they'll never be considered by the scientists and so-called medical ethicists except to stack arguments in favor of whatever they want to do to make a profit.

I continue to trust that God will turn our society's folly into some humbling comedy, because even our scientific experts are notoriously unsuccessful at predicting the end to which their means will lead. It may be the kind of comedy you can only laugh at once human pride has caused the whole husk of the spent and abused world to fall away, unfortunately, leaving the materialists as kings of nothing.

[RightWhale]

From physics we talk abour the electron or the photon or the magnetic field. These are general terms, abstractions. We assume there is more than one electron in the universe. But who knows? Who has actually seen an electron?

Is it a similar situation with the spirit? Is there a single spirit that our individual bodies tune into like a radio, or does a piece of spirit come into our bodily cells, or is the spirit that animates cellular processes separate from the spirit that animates thought? Or is one of these the soul and the other the spirit so both exist at once? At some point we get beyond what can be known and the universe fills with question marks rather than answers.

[steve-b]

Puh-leeze. This story has so little credibility that they might as well have hired Bill Clinton to issue the public statement.

[RGSpincich]

Those who even consider the possibility of this being legit have a serious vitamin deficiency and often hear voices.

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Phoney Cloney

Cloneramadama

Clueless Clowns Clone Klingon

Can't Cope? Clone!

Home Alone Clone: Part Une

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I'm going to lock my door and crawl under my blanket now!

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No fun quite like scaring yourself silly.....SILLY!