# First Cloned Baby

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cloned-baby/102195>\
**Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\
**Created:** [April 6, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cloned-baby/102195 "2002-04-06T18:53:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 5\
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**Author:** ![SuperNova](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ea666f/32.png) [@SuperNova](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/SuperNova)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cloned-baby/102195/1 "2002-04-06T18:53:53Z")

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I don’t know if anyone has linked to this yet, but I didn’t see it among all the other threads mentioning cloning.

[First Cloned Baby](http://europe.cnn.com/2002/TECH/science/04/06/human.clone/index.html)

Wow.

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**Author:** ![shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/7ab992/32.png) [@shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/shrew)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 8:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cloned-baby/102195/2 "2002-04-06T20:24:22Z")

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Mary Shelley is spinning in her grave.

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**Author:** ![clayton\_e](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/c57346/32.png) [@clayton\_e](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/clayton_e)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 9:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cloned-baby/102195/3 "2002-04-06T21:05:51Z")

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Maybe in GD.

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**Author:** ![white-tigeress](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/f475e1/32.png) [@white-tigeress](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/white-tigeress)\
**Post date:** [April 6, 2002, 11:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cloned-baby/102195/4 "2002-04-06T23:08:41Z")

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Dolly the sheep ah, cc tha cat !!! but this is going a bit far.

Leave it to nature!!!

I agree choice would be nice but cloned babiesssssssssss ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh

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**Author:** ![Grelby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/a5b964/32.png) [@Grelby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grelby)\
**Post date:** [April 7, 2002, 2:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/first-cloned-baby/102195/5 "2002-04-07T02:29:25Z")

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Hopefully not true… not because of moral implications, but because of safety and health issues, as mentioned in the article. Along with birth defects, there is the problem of accelerated aging. We haven’t done enough to testing to know whether or not this would be an issue.