Free Republic

FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida: The head of a group that claims to have produced the world's first human clone insisted under oath Wednesday that the baby exists and said the girl is in Israel, not the United States. Clonaid President Brigitte Boisselier also said she had only seen the child, nicknamed Baby Eve by the company, on videotape. Her testimony led a judge to throw out a guardianship petition involving the child. When Boisselier announced late last month that Clonaid had produced a healthy human clone, she promised that independent DNA testing would prove the claim in about 10 days. But...

THE Clonaid group says a third cloned baby has been born in Japan, but has again offered no proof. "A third baby is born now," Clonaid president Brigitte Boisselier said today. She said the parents were a Japanese couple in their 40s and the baby, born Wednesday, was cloned from another of the couple's children who was in a coma. Clonaid has so far failed to provide any evidence to back up its claims of successful human cloning. International scientists have expressed widespread scepticism since an announcement of the first baby in December. Boisselier said the previous babies were born...

2 hours, 16 minutes ago PARIS - The parents of a newborn claimed to be the world's first cloned human are having second thoughts about whether to allow DNA testing on the child, said the head of the cloning company that claims it brought the baby to life. "The parents told me that they needed 48 hours to decide yes or no — if they would do it," Brigitte Boisselier told French television station France-2 in an interview Thursday. Boisselier is chief executive of Clonaid, which is linked to a religious sect that believes space aliens created life on Earth....