Editing Clonaid (section)

==Year before the alleged clone baby claim==
In the spring of 2001,<ref name="'Raelian' biochemist insists she will clone human">[http://www.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/06/30/clone.lab.txt/ 'Raelian' biochemist insists she will clone human], ''[[CNN]]''. June 30, 2001. Retrieved October 11, 2007.</ref> the [[Food and Drug Administration]] [[Office of Criminal Investigations - FDA|Office of Criminal Investigations]] inspected Clonaid's lab in the small city of [[Nitro, West Virginia|Nitro]] in [[West Virginia]].<ref name="For Clonaid, a Trail of Unproven Claims">Kolata, Gina, and Chang Kenneth, [https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F05EEDD133FF932A35752C0A9659C8B63 For Clonaid, a Trail of Unproven Claims], ''[[The New York Times]]''. Retrieved October 11, 2007.</ref>  It was located inside a rented room within a former high school.  Staff scientists reviewed the lab's research documentation and found them inadequate, the work of a graduate student extracting ovum from cow ovaries from a slaughterhouse. The [[FDA]] said that the equipment in lab was state-of-the-art and had been bought by [[Mark Hunt (politician)|Mark Hunt, a former West Virginia state legislator]], who wanted to clone his 10-month-old son, Andrew, who died in 1999 due to congenital heart disease. Following investigation of the West Virginia lab, Mark Hunt made an agreement with the FDA-OCI to not clone his dead son within the United States.<ref name="For Clonaid, a Trail of Unproven Claims"/>

In March 2001, Boisselier said that a woman would be pregnant with a cloned fetus in April.  She said that cells had reached the blastocyst stage, but she refused to speak of any specific implantation or pregnancy associated with them. According to a ''[[CNN]]'' article that November, the Clonaid laboratory was outside the United States.  Clonaid claimed that it had developed human cloned embryos before Advanced Cell Technology was able to do the same.<ref name="Pro-cloning group claims to have embryos">[http://archives.cnn.com/2001/HEALTH/11/27/clonaid.clone/ Pro-cloning group claims to have embryos], ''[[CNN]]''. November 28, 2001. Retrieved September 9, 2007.</ref>  ''CNN'' could not confirm the unpublished work.  Due to Clonaid's association with Raëlians and the lack of evidence for cloning, authorities remained skeptical as to whether Clonaid could clone anything at all.<ref name="Clonaid Claims It Has Cloned a Baby Girl">[http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0212/27/bn.06.html Clonaid Claims It Has Cloned a Baby Girl], ''[[CNN]]''. December 27, 2002. Retrieved September 9, 2007.</ref>