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

AFP via Babelfish ^ | December 27, 2002

[HAL9000]

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.

[Hank Kerchief]

I would want to know where these people did their work, and how many implantations it took to produce this child.

Why?

[Phil V.]

Other suggestions?

Cy?

[MissAmericanPie]

Hasn't the problem with cloning animals been that they have a shortened lifespan (age faster) and have physical disabilities? How could they dare inflict this possibility on a human?

[Cvengr]

Considering their objective was to clone a male Christ (antichrist) it appears they have fallen a bit short.

[Endeavor]

So this explains why Chelsea looks nothing like Bill.

[Green Knight]

Anti-Christ Ping!

Thought this might interest you.

[dogbyte12]

Why?

Oh, if for example it took 57 different women implanted to create one viable fetus it might be nice to know. Did they have some pregnancies like with the sheep, where the fetus was horribly deformed and they aborted at about 5 or 6 months? You know... the small details.

[martin_fierro]

"Here she cooooooooooomes .... that's Kathy's Clone...." <|:)~

[Cvengr]

The real question is,...does it have a soul or spirit?

If not then does it become a body available to unbodied spirits?

[cmsgop]

I think I saw a Show on them once......

[Petronski]

So this explains why Chelsea looks nothing like Bill.

No, that's explained by the night Webb Hubbell showed up at Hillary's back door with a box of whine and a fistful of posies.

[Petronski]

Ugg, box of wine. Interesting slip, though.

[Edward Watson]

LOL! I knew three sisters, identical triplets, who worked for IKON (a photocopier manufacturer). No joke!

[dogbyte12]

Drudge has got the headline up now 15 minutes later. You just have to know he is lurking here.

[APBaer]

"They are extremely spaced-out and flaky."

And they missed the spaceship!

[Hank Kerchief]

...a shortened lifespan (age faster) and have physical disabilities?...

Offspring with these same problems are frequent among those who produce them the usual way. Should we ask, "How could they dare inflict this possibility on a human?" about this method of reproduction also?

Hank

[HAL9000]

Drudge is on it now, with a big 7+ red font headline and the siren.

[Green Knight]

I doubt that was their intention. They cloned a woman, for Pete's sake. Wouldn't a clone of a woman, naturally, be a woman? Though the timing is suspect. I think in that regard you're right, that they were hoping for a Christmas birth. And of course, being female, that'd be more "anti" than a male.

Gotta feel for the girl, though, if she is in fact a clone (Something which I'm not quite prepared to believe, yet). For one, who knows what possibly side effects will result from the cloning process. As someone else pointed out, Dolly didn't exactly have the happiest life. To think they've condemned a human life to suffer who knows what is monstrous in itself. Secondly, even if the kid isn't an "The Anti-Christ", there'll always be people who look at her in that way. Or at the very least as some sort of freak.

Whatever the case, I hope this story is bull. But if it's true, then what these people have done is horrendous. On the level of Mengele. Especially if the child is born with some sort of deformity, or a shortened lifespan.

[Spunky]

coughbullcoughshitcough

So you are the one.

I have been sitting here at my computer accusing my husband or the dog.

[APBaer]

"Duplica, or maybe the more stylish Duplicana."

How about Duplicity, she could be a politician?