“Two renegade fertility specialists yesterday unveiled plans to clone a human embryo within a month and predicted the world's first cloned baby would be born next year” (The Guardian). The fertility specialists in question are Severino Antinori and Panayoiotis Zavos who made their announcement on 7 August at the US National Academy of Sciences (NAS) in Washington. The 656a comes eight days after the US House of Representatives voted to ban all human cloning and, although the decision has to be approved by the Senate before the ban becomes law, the reaction of the scientific community to yesterday's announcement might influence the Senate's vote. Ian Wilmut, who led the team that cloned Dolly the sheep, warned “Expect the same outcome in humans as in other species: late abortions, dead children and surviving but abnormal children” (BBC News), whereas others “denounced [human reproductive cloning] as dangerous and immoral” (The Guardian). Dr Antinori — made famous by helping a 62-year-old woman to have a baby — plans to carry out the human cloning in a secret Mediterranean location. “Cloning will help us put an end to so many diseases, give infertile men the chance to have children. We can't miss this opportunity,” he said (BBC News). Dr Boisselier, the director of Clonaid — a company that might have already experimented with human cloning — believes that “It is our own choice to use our genes the way we want to” (The New York Times). Despite the vetoes from the scientific and ethical communities, the NAS panel was told that “the cloning would go on, regardless of whether [...] any country makes it a crime” (The New York Times).