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Date Posted: 20:52:04 12/29/02 Sun
Author: hotmailbird
Subject: Cloned baby coming to US

Cloned baby coming to U.S., company says

NEW YORK (AP) --The company that claims to have 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. 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 whether 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."

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 its family.

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.

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, 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.

On Sunday, Boisselier said 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.

Boisselier had previously announced that four other couples, including the lesbians, were expected to give birth to Clonaid-created clones by early February.

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 into whether Clonaid illegally performed any work on U.S. soil.

CNN:
http://www.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/29/human.cloning.ap/index.html

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