And so now we have three scientists working almost full-time in a lab to produce a human embryo by human calling.

Why do you want to do it?

Four years ago when I heard all the establishment saying this is so bad and all these things, I said, I have to do it and show that this is only a baby.

A little baby, the belated twin of an individual, and that's it.

It's not a monster.

It's not all, you know, what we have been here is so many bad things about this baby.

That was the voice of a scientist named Brigitte Boisselier.

Forgive my French pronunciation.

She was appearing on C-SPAN to discuss human cloning. A year later, on December 27th of 2002,

she announced at a press conference in Florida that she and her company Clon Aid had,

in an undisclosed country, successfully cloned the first human being.

If this was true, at the time, it would have been an historic scientific accomplishment, it still

would be, albeit a politically and ethically controversial one. Media coverage and discussion

was extensive. A baby, named Eve, she said,

was a live-born clone produced for an infertile couple and was an exact genetic copy of her mother.

But Brigitte provided no photo of the baby or any other evidence for what she was saying.

And then two days later, she announced that Eve would be flying into the U.S. with her family

the following day. By the end of the week, she said, we should have the results from DNA sampling

and be able to share all the details. She agreed to have a former science editor from ABC select experts who would

draw and evaluate the samples from mother and child. Wasselier, who holds two chemistry doctorates,

also said that several more cloned babies were expected to be born in the coming weeks. I said this was controversial.

In short order, a Florida lawyer named Bernie Siegel filed suit against Brigitte and Clonade

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