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US Doc Boasts He Implanted 11 Human Clones

'The cloned child is coming,' says controversial physician

By Mary Papenfuss,  Newser Staff

Posted Apr 22, 2009 5:22 AM CDT
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(Newser) – A controversial American fertility doctor is boasting that he cloned 14 human embryos and implanted 11 of them them into women, reports the Independent. None of the tranfers led to a viable pregnancy. A documentary filmmaker recorded the procedures involving four women who had hoped to become the first mothers of cloned babies. Transferring cloned embryos into a human is a crime in many countries. Physician Panayiotis Zavos carried out the procedure at a secret location, possibly in the Middle East.

Zavos, an American citizen, has clinics in Kentucky and Cyprus, where he was born. The women who participated were from Britain, the US and an unidentified Middle Eastern nation. "The cloned child is coming. There is absolutely no way that it will not happen," said Zavos in an interview. "If we intensify our efforts we can have a cloned baby within a year or two." Film of the procedures will air tonight on the Discovery Channel.

The world's first cloned camel stands with him mom at Dubai's Camel Reproduction Center. An American fertility doc says cloned children are inevitable.
The world's first cloned camel stands with him mom at Dubai's Camel Reproduction Center. An American fertility doc says cloned children are inevitable.   (AP Photo/Dubai's Camel Reproduction Center)
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A British doctor is claiming he implanted 11 cloned embryos into women. None of the embryos survived.
A British doctor is claiming he implanted 11 cloned embryos into women. None of the embryos survived.   (©mohd fahmi)
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Snarfeh
Apr 22, 2009 5:07 AM CDT
Ya, I could do with one of Michael, but what if someone cloned Bush? Or, Cheney? ORRRRRR, ROVE, FOR THE LOVE OF GOD???? We don't need cloning anyway; there's enough breeders out there making future baby orphans to live in poverty in our world....
Timinator2K
Apr 22, 2009 1:53 AM CDT
Good for him! We need a clone of Michael Jordan ASAP!

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