(1/7/98)
CHICAGO (AP) -- A Chicago scientist says he is determined to begin work on cloning a human being despite widespread opposition to using newly developed techniques on humans.
``It is our objective, it is my objective to set up a human clone clinic in greater Chicago here, make it a profitable fertility clinic,'' physicist G. Richard Seed said in an interview carried Tuesday by National Public Radio.
He brushed aside skeptics who say human cloning is unnecessary and not yet technologically possible.
``I've said many times that you can't stop science,'' Seed told NPR. ``... God made man in his own image. God intended for man to become one with God. ... Cloning and the reprogramming of DNA is the first serious step in becoming one with God.''
When asked about personal plans for cloning, Seed replied, ``I plan to clone my wife. However, I intend to remove the gene that makes her bitch, bitch, bitch all the time.''