Seed finds perfect human clone - himself.

Richard Seed, the Chicago-based physicist who attracted national attention earlier in the year when he announced plans to open up a clinic to clone human beings, said he has found the perfect person to be the first candidate - himself.

According to the Boston Globe, Seed said his wife, Gloria, has agreed to carry an embryo that would be created by combining the nucleus of one of his cells with a donor egg.

"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 told a group of academic researchers attending a meeting of the Association for Politics and Life Sciences on September 7. Seed told the group his wife, whose age he refused to divulge, was "post menopausal" and refused to give details of how the pregnancy would work. Seed has vowed to produce a pregnancy with a human clone within 2 1/2 years.

There is a five-year moratorium on human cloning but congress has not passed legislation outlawing the procedure. Seed said if the congress bans human cloning, he will move his operation to Tijuana, Mexico.