Article: The clone sars: transhumanists embrace genetic engineering as a means to create a post-human species. If they prevail, all human beings may no longer be "created" equal. (Cover Story: Abortion).

A wit once described the typical Victorian Englishman as "a self-made man who worships his creator." That gibe acquires an ominous undertone when considered in the context of human cloning.

Last November, Italian fertility doctor Severino Antinori claimed that a cloned baby boy would be born in January. In December, chemist Brigitte Boisselier, head of a company called Clonaid (an affiliate of a bizarre cult called the "Raelians"), publicly claimed that a baby girl would be born late that month or in early January, with four more cloned babies to arrive by the end of February. Scientists greeted these announcements with disdain, and most specialists believe that ...

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