Editing Clonaid (section)

===Premise===
On June 9, 1997, Clonaid stated its intention to offer homosexual and/or infertile couples the chance to have a genetically identical child and take a step toward [[immortality]].  According to an Internet announcement, the Raëlian leader and a group of investors founded a company in the Bahamas and called it ''Valiant Venture Ltd.'', whose project mission was named Clonaid.  Valiant Venture expected to have one million potential customers.<ref name="SWISS GROUP LAUNCHES FIRM TO MARKET HUMAN CLONING">[http://nl.newsbank.com/nl-search/we/Archives?p_product=SJ&s_site=mercurynews&p_multi=SJ&p_theme=realcities&p_action=search&p_maxdocs=200&p_topdoc=1&p_text_direct-0=0EB720C8D4722366&p_field_direct-0=document_id&p_perpage=10&p_sort=YMD_date:D&s_trackval=GooglePM SWISS GROUP LAUNCHES FIRM TO MARKET HUMAN CLONING], ''[[San Jose Mercury News]]''. June 9, 1997. Retrieved September 9, 2007. [https://news.google.com/archivesearch?q=clonaid+%22expecting+more+than+1+million&btnG=Search+Archives&num=20&lr=&scoring=t&as_ldate=&as_hdate=2000 ''(highlight)'']</ref>

[[Claude Vorilhon]] held a meeting in a [[Montreal]] hotel on September 21, 2000, where he announced that a wealthy American couple was willing to fund the Clonaid project.  The first pending clone, according to Vorilhon at the time, was the couple's 10-month-old girl, who had died due to a medical mistake.  He said that the couple was willing to pay $1,500,000 to clone their deceased daughter, but the wife was not willing to be the surrogate mother.  Jamie Grifo, a fertility specialist at the [[New York University School of Medicine]], and Nobel laureate [[Paul Berg]] of [[Stanford University]] said that Vorilhon was providing a false hope that the child was going to be the same one.  Boisselier revealed the roles of four scientists she says were involved—"a biochemist, a geneticist, a cell fusion expert and a French medical doctor"—but without revealing their identity.  She did not identify the wealthy American couple.<ref name="Human Cloning's 'Numbers Game'">Weiss, Rick, "[https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2000/10/10/human-clonings-numbers-game/7ed0daa7-3dae-485e-b65a-a540919e314d/ Human Cloning's 'Numbers Game']", ''[[The Washington Post]]''. October 10, 2000. Retrieved September 19, 2023.</ref>