Friday, December 27, 2002

cloned baby?
The Raelians claim they have cloned a baby that has been brought to term and been born, as reported in this ny times article.

Religious Sect Says It Will Announce the First Cloned Baby
By DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

A religious sect that contends that space travelers created the human race by cloning themselves said yesterday that it would announce today that the first cloned human baby had been born.

A representative of the group, the Raƫlians, said the announcement would be made at a news conference in Florida by Dr. Brigitte Boisselier, who directs a Bahamian company formed to clone humans and is scientific director of the sect. Dr. Boisselier's spokeswoman, Nadine Gary, would give out little information but said the baby had been born by Caesarean section and was a clone of the woman who gave birth to her. Neither mother nor child will be at the news conference "for medical reasons," Ms. Gary said.

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