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Some days ago, the french scientist Brigitte Boisselier, as a spokesperson for the company Clonaid which is related to the Raelian Movement, announced the birth of a clonic girl, genetically identical to her mother, a north american woman in her thirties. Boissilier assured that the girl was born by caesarean the 26th of December. If the news is confirmed this wil be the first cloned baby.

At the same time Boissilier said that the girl, named Eve, was 3,2 kilograms of weight when she was born, but she didn't specify the place where the girl was conceived because of security reasons. According to Clonaid, four more cloned babies will be born during the next weeks in Europe, North America and Asia.

The Raelian Movement is a sect created in 1997 by Claude Vorilhon, a french journalist who wants to be called Raël. The raelians claim that human life was created scientifically through DNA by an extraterrestrial race called Elohim. They also claim that clonation will make reality the dream of eternal life.

The possibility of the birth of the first cloned baby has already caused reactions in the political world. George Bush and Jacques Chirac, presidents of United States and France, have taken a position totally contrary to clonation. The Vatican has taken the same position and has qualified this technique as a brutal one.

The scientists have been sceptical about the news and doubt that Raelians possess the technique to practice human clonation. The answer of Boissier to the incredulity has been the announcement that a group of independent scientists will be able to certify the authenticity of the clone.