Cloning Deaths?

As most of you know, a sheep was cloned on July 5, 1996. But scientists had to put Dolly to sleep on February 14, 2003. She had been diagnosed with progressive lung disease. There have been many reports that Dolly may have been getting old before her time, developing arthritis and possibly other problems. Scientists are trying to find out whether Dolly had an early death due to the cloning technique they used, which according to my references commonly causes severe problems, or if she simply died at a young age.

But if she did die because of the technique, what will happen to the babies which teams of specialists are trying to clone? Could they create possibly very sick children?

I went onto a few websites and found this statement in one of them:

Clonaid claims birth of first human clone (Eve) by caesarian section on December 26, 2002 and a second child in Europe (Netherlands) to a same-sex couple in early January; a third in late January to a Japanese couple who cloned their dead son, plus another to a couple from Saudi Arabia and a further child -- country of origin not declared. But no evidence of any kind had been offered by mid-February to substantiate their claims.

See where I bolded it. A couple cloned their dead son? Now, whether this is true or not, who would have the desire to clone their dead son?

Born outside the US to an American woman, Eve was apparently created using Dolly technology -- a skin cell and a human egg from the "mother" who is infertile. Clonaid claims 3 other "mothers" will give birth soon, one of which is carrying a twin of a dead child.

Now, I don't know what any one else is thinking, but I for one thinks it's disgusting. Why can't people leave things the way fate takes them?

The claims could be true, given the pace of human cloning research and the commitment to the research. For example, a team in China reported in January 2003 that they had also successfully grown 80 human clones. Even if Clonaids's claims are false, the momentum for human cloning is so great, the global race so intense, that we are likely to see clones born quite soon elsewhere, with huge physical and emotional risks to the babies born... or created, if you like.

Back to the Japanese baby: I went to Clonaid's site (http://www.clonaid.com) were they claim to have cloned this baby.

Keep in mind that there are many other cloning companies, but this was the first human cloning company in the world. It was founded in February 1997, by RA??L and a group of investors who created the Valiant Venture Ltd Corporation based in the Bahamas.

Scientists would like to continue this and make adjustments to the clones in the near future. But first they have to perfect what they have.

Open your eyes to the world and what is happening.

-SallyBabe