cloning canadians
Thread Starter
Former Moderator
Joined: Oct 2000
Posts: 20,448
Likes: 0
From: internet
cloning canadians
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story2&cid...d_nm/cloning_dc
Sect Says First Cloned Baby Due in Weeks
1 hour, 59 minutes ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
MONTREAL (Reuters) - A Canadian cult that believes in free love and that life on earth was created by extra terrestrials said it could deliver the world's first cloned baby on Christmas day.
But the announcement by the Quebec-based Raelians sect was greeted on Thursday with anger and skepticism from experts in the field.
"I am personally disgusted," said Arthur Leader, chief of reproductive medicine at the Ottawa Hospital. "It shows disrespect for human embryos and it demeans our humanity," he said.
Brigitte Boisselier, a bishop in the sect, said their company, Clonaid, cloned a human embryo last March and a baby girl is expected to be delivered within the next two weeks and possibly on Christmas Day.
"We are well advanced and the first baby is due for the end of this year. We think it will be a healthy baby," Boisselier told Reuters.
She said 10 human embryos were cloned last spring, with five miscarrying. The four other cloned babies are expected next year.
Boisselier, 45, is a biochemist associated with the Raelians, a cult that believes life on earth was genetically created by visiting extra-terrestrials.
Sect Says First Cloned Baby Due in Weeks
1 hour, 59 minutes ago Add Oddly Enough - Reuters to My Yahoo!
MONTREAL (Reuters) - A Canadian cult that believes in free love and that life on earth was created by extra terrestrials said it could deliver the world's first cloned baby on Christmas day.
But the announcement by the Quebec-based Raelians sect was greeted on Thursday with anger and skepticism from experts in the field.
"I am personally disgusted," said Arthur Leader, chief of reproductive medicine at the Ottawa Hospital. "It shows disrespect for human embryos and it demeans our humanity," he said.
Brigitte Boisselier, a bishop in the sect, said their company, Clonaid, cloned a human embryo last March and a baby girl is expected to be delivered within the next two weeks and possibly on Christmas Day.
"We are well advanced and the first baby is due for the end of this year. We think it will be a healthy baby," Boisselier told Reuters.
She said 10 human embryos were cloned last spring, with five miscarrying. The four other cloned babies are expected next year.
Boisselier, 45, is a biochemist associated with the Raelians, a cult that believes life on earth was genetically created by visiting extra-terrestrials.
and not enough 
makes people think this way.
