Human cloning with private funding is not illegal in the United States, but the Food and Drug Administration has said it has the authority to regulate it and approve efforts in advance. That claim has not been tested in court. In any case, many scientists suspect that fertility specialists in the United States and abroad, who have relatively easy access to spare human eggs, are already toying with cloning techniques in their laboratories, though probably not transferring cloned embryos to women's wombs. Details about the Raelian effort may be in short supply, but money appears to be plentiful at Clonaid. Additional income comes from UFOland, Rael's theme park near Montreal.
Volunteers are apparently plentiful as well.
American scientists say they, too, get many requests from people who want to copy themselves or their loved ones. I have no doubt it will happen very soon. It is different from the so-called 'abortion pill,' RU 486, which can terminate a pregnancy up to 12 weeks after conception. Certainly the French ministers, the French journalists, and the millions of French teenagers who will consume these pills, know the difference. Scientists also know that therefore both pills can technically cause abortions.