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"The sect-linked company that claims to have produced two human clones said a third would be born in Japan as early as Monday, Japanese media reports said"

Taro Toporific wrote:Sect: Dead toddler cloned

Japan ignores cloned birth claim
The Japanese Government has shrugged off an announcement by a controversial sect of the birth of a cloned baby in Japan where cloning is banned.

"I do not think the case is worthy of comment at this point, there is no publicised scientific evidence," Japanese Science and Technology Minister Atsuko Toyama said.

"We should not deal with it as a legitimate announcement," she said.

Japanese officials dismissed the announcement a mere publicity stunt.

... It is not even worth talking about it," Yutaka Hishiyama said, official at the bioethics and biosafety office of the Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare.

"It is a publicity stunt," he said.

Those who engage in human cloning in Japan can receive prison term of up to 10 years and face fines up to 10 million yen ($US84,745).



---Posted: Fri, 24 Jan 2003 14:48 AEDT, Australia

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Clonaid claims third baby, but no proof
Ms. Boisselier said the Japanese newborn was cloned from the preserved cells and tissues of the dead two-year-old baby of the Japanese couple, who are in their 40s. She said she could not offer any immediate proof of the birth, but added that pictures of both the baby who died in an accident two years ago, and the newborn, will be on Clonaid's Web site in the next day or so...

---The Ottawa Citizen / Canada.com,?Canada?-?24 Jan 2003

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Clonaid exec expected in court Wednesday
In Japan, a spokeswoman for the Japan Raelian Movement said that the Japanese baby is a clone of a 2-year-old boy who died in an accident 18 months ago. An Asian woman not of Japanese nationality served as the surrogate, she said.