April 7, 2002
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Woman pregnant with first cloned baby, doctor says.
Caveat: not yet independently confirmed but Dr Severino Antinori, who first hit the headlines in 1994 after helping a 62-year-old woman conceive, now claims to have impregnated a woman with the world's first cloned baby. The story was first reported in Gulf News, an English-language newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates and has been greeted with an equal mix of scepticism and condemnation. Richard Nicholson, editor of the Bulletin of Medical Ethics, said he was sceptical of the claim, but said if it was true the baby's future was grim. "I don't believe Dr Antinori has in any way considered the welfare of the offspring," said Mr Nicholson. "I think he is trying to achieve personal notoriety. I don't believe he is truly trying to advance science for the benefit of mankind." There are also calls to have the doctor face disciplinary or even legal action.
Meanwhile, "Dolly the Sheep" has arthritis.
Caveat: not yet independently confirmed but Dr Severino Antinori, who first hit the headlines in 1994 after helping a 62-year-old woman conceive, now claims to have impregnated a woman with the world's first cloned baby. The story was first reported in Gulf News, an English-language newspaper published in the United Arab Emirates and has been greeted with an equal mix of scepticism and condemnation. Richard Nicholson, editor of the Bulletin of Medical Ethics, said he was sceptical of the claim, but said if it was true the baby's future was grim. "I don't believe Dr Antinori has in any way considered the welfare of the offspring," said Mr Nicholson. "I think he is trying to achieve personal notoriety. I don't believe he is truly trying to advance science for the benefit of mankind." There are also calls to have the doctor face disciplinary or even legal action.
Meanwhile, "Dolly the Sheep" has arthritis.
This post was deleted for the following reason:
I had considered making the same post - when the story hit the mainstream news, it was suddenly a "HUMAN CLONING!!!" story. When it first appeared here, though, the way it was posted and the discussion that followed made it seem more like an artificial insemination story (with a male/female thing going on). I had to stop and really think before I also realized the "First Cloned Baby" story was the same story that was discussed before.
posted by yhbc at 8:13 PM on April 7, 2002
posted by yhbc at 8:13 PM on April 7, 2002
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posted by mikhail at 7:59 PM on April 7, 2002