Purported clone coming home to U.S. today, official says - details secret to protect child, family

Associated Press ^ | December 30, 2002 | Associated Press Staff

[MeekOneGOP]

Purported clone coming home to U.S. today, official says

Company tied to sect states it will allow independent DNA tests

12/30/2002

Associated Press

NEW YORK - The company that says it created the world's first cloned human says the baby, nicknamed "Eve," is coming home to the United States on Monday.

The baby is flying into the country with her family, Brigitte Boisselier said Sunday, two days after she announced the child's birth. Dr. Boisselier is chief executive of Clonaid, the cloning company affiliated with a religious sect that believes space aliens launched life on Earth.

"The baby is going home, and once at home it is possible for an independent expert to go there and once a sample is taken we will see," she said, referring to DNA testing needed to prove that the child is really a clone. "On Monday if a sample is taken, perhaps by the end of the week or early next week we should have all the details."

Dr. Boisselier previously said the child's mother is American but has offered no further details. On Sunday, neither she nor Clonaid spokeswoman Nadine Gary would say where in the United States the mother is from, where the child was born or what U.S. city they would be arriving in.

Both said details were being kept secret to protect the child and her family.

Dr. Boisselier's comments Sunday came two days after she announced at a Florida news conference that Clonaid scientists had produced the world's first cloned baby. She said "Eve," a healthy 7-pound girl, was delivered by Caesarean section Thursday and is an exact genetic copy of her mother.

Dr. Boisselier offered no scientific proof, provided no photographs and did not produce the child or the mother, who she said is a 31-year-old with an infertile husband. Her announcement was met with doubt by the scientific community and revulsion by many ethicists.

To gain convincing proof that "Eve" is a clone, Dr. Boisselier said she had accepted an offer by a former ABC News science editor who has chosen independent experts to draw DNA from the mother and the newborn and test them for a match.

Clonaid was founded by Claude Vorilhon, a former French journalist and leader of a sect called the Raelians.

Mr. Vorilhon, who calls himself Rael, says a space alien visiting him in 1973 revealed that extraterrestrials had created all life on Earth through genetic engineering.

On Sunday, Dr. Boisselier said that a pediatrician has seen the baby and that the child is "doing fine."

She also said a second cloned baby is due to be born next week to a lesbian couple in northern Europe.

The United States has no specific law against human cloning. But the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which regulates human experiments, says its regulations forbid human cloning without prior agency permission, and it has launched an investigation.

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[MeekOneGOP]

Rael (Claude Vorilhon)

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

Indeed. They are arriving in a super secret space ship disguised as a commercial airline. Even the people in the jet don't know what it is. Only the pilot and the co-pilot.

[dfwgator]

Uh huh!! And Marshall Applewhite and Company are really on that spaceship with the aliens.

[xJones]

To gain convincing proof that "Eve" is a clone, Dr. Boisselier said she had accepted an offer by a former ABC News science editor who has chosen independent experts to draw DNA from the mother and the newborn and test them for a match.

This should be good. We're about to watch a busted fraud from the space alien people. But please, oh please, don't post another photo of that reddish-haired spokeswoman with the bad teeth.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

I predict this will be called a hoax. But the cloners will know the truth-- the hoax will be a hoax. An alien will tell them the truth.

[Arthur Wildfire! March]

They will find that he had gone to a sink, added his own DNA into the mix, and then pondered the best photo-op for this grand event. He will accuse them of a coverup. Lefties put tin hats on right wing conspiracy theories when we have hard evidence. But they fall for the goofiest, most obvious con men and wackos around.

[snodog]

Hey, isn't that guy two of the BeeGees.

[xJones]

You're on to something, Arthur. It will be proven that the former ABC News science editor was previously captured by the Borgs and has been brainwashed into hiding the real *truth* about the clone, which of course, only you and I really know. :D

[Trickyguy]

I am convinced this is a hoax. However, if it is not, it is a horrible thing. If I remember correctly, each time our cells reproduce, small objects in them (telemeres, I believe) get shorter. Once they get too short, we die. The article I read, which was about Dolly the sheep, said she
was born with the original, short telemeres. It claimed that if Strom Thurmond was cloned, when the clone grew up, say to 21 years old, it would, because of the shortened telemeres, be 100 years old physically. So if this baby is a clone, it will have a very short life. Sort of like artifically-induced progeria.

[Charles Henrickson]

The Eve of Destruction.

[CalvaryJohn]

Just thinking, these kooks are so sick, they would hold up a progeric clone as evidence of the space alien Elohim.

[MeekOneGOP]

Indeed. They are arriving in a super secret space ship disguised as a commercial airline. Even the people in the jet don't know what it is. Only the pilot and the co-pilot.

Just your ordinary flight. Here's their mode of transportation uncloaked......

[MeekOneGOP]

This should be good. We're about to watch a busted fraud from the space alien people. But please, oh please, don't post another photo of that reddish-haired spokeswoman with the bad teeth.

Huh? You mean THIS person?.....

Brigitte Boisselier

[MeekOneGOP]

ITEOTWAWKI

[Piquaboy]

This cloning stuff needs to be brought to a halt immediately before they clone another Bill clinton.

[Fury]

I am convinced this is a hoax.

I would tend to agree. Look for there to be "problems" when the samples are ready to be taken, something along the lines of the samples already being taken and just handed to the former ABC guy, or claims that new information uncovered indicates that he is not objective, etc., etc.

[RGSpincich]

She sings at casino cabarets in Reno, right? Or maybe that's her twin.

[MeekOneGOP]

LOL !

[Kenton]

This is gonna be confusing as hell for the "family". I mean, the "mother" won't really be, will she? Will the original cell donor get to call the kid "mini-me"? Does this mean that when the original gets old her husband gets to replace her with the new one? I have a headache from all this.