Editing Clonaid (section)

===Responses by politicians and ethicists===
US President [[George W. Bush]] said that human cloning was "deeply troubling" to most Americans.  [[Kansas]] Republican [[Sam Brownback]] said that Congress should ban all human cloning, while some Democrats were worried that Clonaid's announcement would lead to the banning of [[therapeutic cloning]].  FDA biotechnology chief Dr. Phil Noguchi warned that the human cloning, even if it worked, risked transferring sexually transmitted diseases to the newly born child.<ref name="FDA Probes Sect's Human Cloning"/> The [[White House]] was also critical of the claims.<ref name="CNN.com - Clonaid: Baby 'clone' returns home - Jan. 1, 2003"/>

[[Panayiotis Zavos|Panos Zavos]], a former professor of the [[University of Kentucky]], at the time had plans to create human clone embryos, but he stated to the effect that Clonaid's claims were without merit and that Eve did not exist.<ref name="Vatican slams 'brutal' clone claim">[https://web.archive.org/web/20051114214451/http://archives.cnn.com/2002/HEALTH/12/28/cloning.vatican/index.html Vatican slams 'brutal' clone claim], ''[[CNN]]''. December 28, 2002. Retrieved April 29, 2007.</ref> [[Severino Antinori]], who had worked with Zavos on the development of human clone embryos, was critical of Klondyke's announcement, and said of it that, "An announcement of this type has no scientific corroboration and risks creating confusion."<ref name="First cloned baby 'born on 26 December'"/> [[Robert Lanza]] of Advanced Cell Technologies said that Clonaid has no record of accomplishment for cloning anything, but he said that if Clonaid actually succeeded, there would be public unrest that may lead to the banning of therapeutic cloning, which has the capacity to cure millions of patients. The [[Holy See|Vatican]] said that the claims expressed a mentality that was brutal and lacked ethical consideration.<ref name="CNN.com - Clonaid: Baby 'clone' returns home - Jan. 1, 2003"/> The [[Christian Coalition of America]] urged a human cloning ban and saw the alleged clone baby as an "aberration".<ref name="Vatican slams 'brutal' clone claim"/>

[[University of Wisconsin–Madison]] bioethicist [[Alta Charo]] said that even in other ape-like mammals, the risk for miscarriage, birth defects, and life problems remains high.<ref name="CNN.com - Clonaid: Baby 'clone' returns home - Jan. 1, 2003"/> [[Arthur Caplan]], the director of the Center for Bioethics at the University of Pennsylvania, expressed concerns that many dead and sick children could result from the cloning of human beings.<ref name="Vatican slams 'brutal' clone claim"/>