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it would be possible to clone a human being in ten years. Dr. Kimball Atwood, professor of microbiology
at the University of Illinois, said about the same time that with a crash program, human cloning could be
achieved almost immediately. The book has many quotes from prominent doctors and scientists at the time
that said human cloning would soon occur, but because of public resistance, the scientists stopped talking
about cloning when they started doing it. Rorvik aided in the cloning of a human, who was two years old
at the time the book was written.
We KNOW that cloning of humans has taken place, roughly twenty years ago, and the question becomes,
how far advanced has this technology become? Human (homo sapiens) clone DNA gene sequences are
even currently posted on the Internet! (See for instance the search file “file:///d%7C/NETSCAPE/DOWN-
LOAD/CLONES/20MER—FA.HTM”.)
Oregon Statesman Journal, Jan. 13, 1996: “Gorilla gives birth to Human test-tube baby. ‘Researchers
say they’ve achieved an astonishing medical breakthrough: A gorilla surrogate mother has given
birth to the first human test tube baby,’ according to a report in the Jan. 16 edition of the Sun.
Chinese scientists say the gorilla carried the baby a full nine months. They also say the day when human
mothers will be freed from carrying infants full term is near.
“‘Chinese women will no longer need to put aside their careers to bear children,’ says Dr. Wong Shei, a
zoologist connected with the project. The gorilla mother, Bright Joy, and the baby are in good health, he
says. ‘This is truly a glorious event.’”
Glorious indeed. Now slave mothers will no longer have to take days off from their slave labor to bear
children. Brave New World!
·October 26, 1995, the Austin American Statesman, “Scientists grow ears of humans on lab mice.
Tissue engineering shows promise for replacing damaged skin, cartilage, by Katharine Webster, Associated
Press. BOSTON—It sounds like something from a carnival side show: ‘The Mouse With Human
Ear On its Back’. But it’s real. It’s alive.
“That mouse, and others of its kind, are at the leading edge of a science known as tissue engineering, which
allows laboratories to grow skin and cartilage for transplant in humans....”
·The New York Times, March 24, 1981, had an article which began: “Some day there will probably be a
library containing all the genetic information needed to create a complete human being. This idea, alarming
to some, enticing to others, is no longer entirely a flight of science fantasy. New techniques and automated
machines are enormously increasing scientists’ ability to spell out the message of heredity in living cells, to
put together their own artificial messages in the universal genetic code, and to analyze in complete detail the
proteins on which all life depends. New instruments promise to compress into days or hours painstaking
research that used to occupy weeks, months, or years.”
·March 7, 1996. Researchers in Scotland have developed a technique for cloning unlimited numbers of
genetically undistinguishable sheep. Scientists said it could open the door to mass production of genealtered
animals with desirable traits, such as those with “humanized” organs suitable for transplant. The
technique could also reportedly be used to clone human beings. In the first round of experiments, only 5
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