<Couple plan to clone a baby.
August 13, 2002 Posted: 3:13 PM EDT (1913 GMT)
"(CNN) -- Bill and Kathy immediately set out to have a baby when they married in 1993. But after years of enduring fertility drugs, artificial insemination, in-vitro fertilization -- with no success -- the couple are turning to a controversial alternative to get the baby they so desperately desire."
Video and audio reports here:
The Zavos Organization
Severino Antinori claims to have already successfully implanted cloned embryos, scheduled to be born in December this year:
Posted on Tue, Jun. 25, 2002
Gynecologist claims impending births of 5 cloned human babies
BY JOHN CREWDSON
Chicago Tribune
ROME - KRT NEWSFEATURES
(KRT) - If Severino Antinori can be believed, and if everything goes as he devoutly hopes, around Christmas there may occur an epoch-making event that is opposed by virtually all scientists as unethical, dangerous and worse: the birth of the first cloned human baby, a boy, followed shortly by four others."
It's interesting in this article one researcher claims that his studies with cows don't show the genetic defects seen in some studies and suggests it may be due to the specific species and experimenters.
Bob Clark
Human clones this year?
