It's not just the procedure that's unproven. So is Seed. With no medical experience whatsoever and no sign that he's picked any up since first declaring his intentions back in January, the good doctor is a long way from his goal of producing a pregnancy with a human clone inside two and a half years. Should Richard and Gloria Seed somehow stumble across the secret of nonsexual reproduction, however, their creation would be perfectly legal. So far Seed's home state of Illinois has not banned human cloning.
Seed Seeing Double
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Talk about self-love. Do you like yourself enough to create an exact copy? More importantly, does your partner like you enough to carry this clone around inside her for nine months? Richard Seed's spouse does, or so the 69-year-old physicist told an audience in Boston over the weekend. "I have decided to clone myself first to defuse the criticism that I'm taking advantage of desperate women with a procedure that's not proven," Seed said. His wife, Gloria, who will apparently carry the donated egg with Seed's cell to full term despite being postmenopausal, was unavailable for comment.