ROME, May 6, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) – Italian fertility specialist Severino Antinori claims three babies he cloned have been born. Antinori said the cloned babies are the product of an experiment that they were allowed to live until term. Antinori, who gained notoriety as an in-vitro fertilization specialist for impregnating a 65-year-old, announced in 2002 that three women had been impregnated with cloned embryos. Experts dismissed Antinori’s claims, insisting that the technology was not yet available to pull off a successful human clone.
Antinori has always distanced himself from his own announcements—refusing to explain his role in the experiments or to reveal the nationality or whereabouts of the alleged mother(s), and saying other unnamed doctors would be delivering the clones in an unknown jurisdiction. Antonini has been called to task for failing to produce any evidence of his claims for peer review. The rogue fertility specialist maintains he acted only as an “advisor” in this case. “I confirm the facts. I have had information that it happened and I am repeating it,” he said at a press conference in Rome. Read the Yahoo news account: https://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=571&u=/nm/20040505/hl_nm/science_clone_antinori_dc_1&printer=1 Also see the Interim article “Don’t Send in the Clones,” which describes the disastrous health consequences for cloned animals, at: https://www.theinterim.com/2002/july/16dontsend.html See the related LifeSiteNews.com report, “Thousands Volunteer for Human Cloning Experiments Beginning in November,” at: https://www.lifesitenews.com/ldn/2001/aug/01080702.html