Raelian cult claims demands pour in from parents to clone children killed in intifada
By Lior Kodner
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Dr. Boisselier strode firmly toward the throng of journalists awaiting her at ZOA House in Tel Aviv. She landed in Israel five days ago, and has already visited what her cult claims is the first cloned human baby in the world, Eve - who happens to live here. Boisselier had hoped Eve's parents would join her at the press conference, but they canceled at the last minute. According to Boisselier, this was due to fear of the authorities: Israel banned human cloning in 1998. For this reason, the Raelians are careful to stress that Eve was cloned overseas.
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Soon afterward, Boisselier produced the headline of her visit to Israel: To date, she has received 55 cloning requests from Israelis and Palestinians. She attributes this enormous demand to the violent conflict. "We received many requests from Israeli and Palestinian parents who wanted to clone children who were killed in the war. We can comply with only half of these requests, since in the other cases too much time has passed since the moment of death. Because all clones made to date were defined as experimental, we produced them for free. But this is a very expensive process, so from now on, we will need to demand payment. We will publicize the exact fee shortly."
This is a very odd article, even for Ha'aretz, in which the author appears to be utterly oblivious to the absurdity of Clonaid's claims, as well as the rabid anti-Semitic bent of the Raelian cult.
