| Desh_Bhakta_Bhattarai |
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on 27-Jul-02 10:00 AM
I read this news in cnn.com . Has this happened?? If it did, what is your reaction??
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Korean cloning out of this world
July 25, 2002 Posted: 9:53 PM HKT (1353 GMT)
SEOUL, South Korea (Reuters) -- South Korean authorities are investigating a U.S.-based firm run by a UFO-inspired spiritual sect which claims it has implanted a cloned embryo in a Korean woman.
As Seoul's media urged the country to swiftly pass laws against human cloning in the wake of Clonaid's claim, the South Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare was quick to underline its opposition to the practice.
"We began investigating the company yesterday," a ministry spokesman said.
"Before finding out whether or not there's a woman pregnant with a cloned baby, we must state that the practice of human cloning itself is unethical," the spokesman said.
Clonaid Korea spokesman Kwak Gi-hwa told a news conference in South Korea on Wednesday that the firm had implanted a Korean surrogate mother with a cloned embryo. The woman would give birth in South Korea, which has no laws against the procedure, he said.
In an interview with Reuters television on Thursday, Kwak repeated his assertion.
"The surrogate mother, who arrived in South Korea a month ago, came with an embryo which had been implanted on her uterine wall by foreign technicians," he said.
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