Cloned baby girl 'due by new year'
From Richard Owen in Rome
THE first of five women impregnated with cloned embryos is due to give birth to a baby girl by the end of the year, a member of the controversial Raelian movement said last night.
The group made the announcement after Severino Antinori, the Italian fertility expert, claimed that the first cloned human baby would be born in January.
“We have five pregnancies under way, of which one is almost due,” Brigitte Boisselier, managing director of the Raelians’ Clonaid project, based in Las Vegas, said.
The Raelians believe that life on Earth was established by extra-terrestrials who arrived in flying saucers 25,000 years ago, and that humans were created by cloning.
Dr Antinori, who runs a fertility clinic near the Vatican, said the woman involved in his programme was in her 33rd week of pregnancy, which was proceeding normally. He said the foetus was male.
This should be interesting.
More info about the Raelians (pretty nice site btw( is at:
http://www.rael.org/int/english/index.html