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Report - First human clone born - It's a girl
AFP via Babelfish ^ | December 27, 2002

Posted on 12/26/2002 6:02:33 PM PST by 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.



TOPICS: Breaking News; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: catholiclist; clonaid; clone; cloning; culthoax; fountainofyouth; immortality; sickandwrong
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To: dighton
Yikes! These people are nuttier than the (squick squick squick) Scientologists.
41 posted on 12/26/2002 6:25:08 PM PST by Petronski
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To: dogbyte12
How could they dare inflict this possibility on a human?

My question was, why do you want to know these things? Will you be dissappointed if the very first implantation was successful and there were no "horrors?"

Hank

42 posted on 12/26/2002 6:25:53 PM PST by Hank Kerchief
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To: garbanzo
a baby girl genetically identical to her 30-year-old mother

Why would anyone do this to their own child? Do they not understand the implications of a child having the exact same immune system as its parent? The whole purpose of sexual reproduction is precisely to scramble the genes from one generation to the next, so that disease organisms that evolve to be successful in the parent do not also kill the offspring. This woman has just given her many disease organisms (we all have millions of them inside us) a thirty-year head start on adapting to her kid's immune system. Whatever ultimately kills her will find no resistance in her child. That's just dumb.


43 posted on 12/26/2002 6:27:04 PM PST by Nick Danger
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To: Green Knight
The Raelians had active measures to try and retrieve a fiber from the Shroud of Turin or other 'Holy Relics' about a year or two ago coincidental to their announcement of about a year ago that they intended to clone a human. There had been some conspiracy theory thread quotes attributed to them that this was their intention.

If true, then I suspect they simply are working a milestone towards that same agenda. At least the reports from the lunatic fringe are consistent.......consistently lunatic.

44 posted on 12/26/2002 6:28:20 PM PST by Cvengr
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To: HAL9000
This is a must see -

www.clonaid.com


45 posted on 12/26/2002 6:28:50 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: Shermy
"I'm my own grandma"?
46 posted on 12/26/2002 6:29:09 PM PST by Exit148
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To: dighton
Reminds me of Bagwan Shri Rajneesh aka Osho and his free love cult... free sex with multiple partners will always attract.

Yeah I have a problem with them as well but that does not reflect on the expertise of a follower.
47 posted on 12/26/2002 6:29:31 PM PST by Bobibutu
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To: Hank Kerchief
I would rather it be one birth, and the child is healthy honestly. I seriously doubt it though.

I am not opposed to cloning, per se... just as I am not opposed to in vitro. The state of the technology as I know it though, concerns me about what is being done here however. If the health of Dolly, and the failed attempts to create Dolly are an example, this IMHO is highly unethical.

If they have cloned on one try, I am not going to automatically oppose it. A woman needing a transplant of some sort, could be gifted with life, as well as giving life to another.

48 posted on 12/26/2002 6:29:55 PM PST by dogbyte12
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To: HAL9000
They didn't have "balls" to clone a boy.
49 posted on 12/26/2002 6:30:14 PM PST by Musketeer
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To: Petronski
Bingo
50 posted on 12/26/2002 6:30:48 PM PST by Endeavor
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To: HAL9000

Batteries not included.
51 posted on 12/26/2002 6:31:12 PM PST by Petronski
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To: Cvengr
It is possible to read all of the prophecies in terms of a male or female.
52 posted on 12/26/2002 6:31:28 PM PST by muawiyah
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To: Shermy
What should her name be?

Ditto? Ibid? Echo? Mimi C.?

53 posted on 12/26/2002 6:32:56 PM PST by Dan Day
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To: HAL9000
AFP English language report via Drudge link -

Clone baby birth claim

December 27, 2002

A BABY has been born through cloning, French scientist and member of the Raelian sect Brigitte Boisselier have claimed. The baby, a girl, was born on Thursday by caesarean section. The birth "went very well," said Boisselier, president of the human cloning society Clonaid, on the telephone.

As the effort by the Raelians to achieve the first human birth by cloning was carried out in the utmost secrecy, it was not immediately possible to obtain any independent scientific confirmation that the baby was in fact a clone.

Agence France-Presse


54 posted on 12/26/2002 6:33:53 PM PST by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000
Very interesting thread. Thanks, Hal.
55 posted on 12/26/2002 6:34:11 PM PST by syriacus
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To: Shermy
How about Dittoe?
56 posted on 12/26/2002 6:34:35 PM PST by chilepepper
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To: Dan Day
What should her name be?

Isogyneia

57 posted on 12/26/2002 6:34:55 PM PST by cornelis
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To: martin_fierro
"Here she cooooooooooomes .... that's Kathy's Clone...." <|:)~

I can't decide whether to give you an award or keelhaul you.

58 posted on 12/26/2002 6:35:44 PM PST by Dan Day
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To: Shermy
Beallzuhbette...Lucyfer...Marystophelis.
59 posted on 12/26/2002 6:35:55 PM PST by vidbizz
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