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British Government Drops Plans to Ban Human/Animal Hybrids
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| 2/27/07
| Hilary White
Posted on 02/27/2007 4:25:46 PM PST by wagglebee
LONDON, February 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) The British governments plans to ban the creation of human/animal hybrid embryos are over after a group of 45 scientists, ethicists and politicians published an open letter in January saying that a ban would hold back the advancement of British science.
The Times reports that the government is now dropping plans to ban the experiments and will instead offer funding for a public debate before new legislation is drafted.
The open letter, published in the Times in response to the governments December 2006 announcement that it planned to draft legislation to ban hybrids, was signed by academic ethicists, members of the House of Lords Select Committee on Stem Cell Research, the head of a biotechnology company and a number of scientists awaiting permission to carry out the research.
The letter said the research was necessary for improving the efficiency of therapeutic cloning techniques and that the Parliamentary committee had concluded after a long inquiry that such research was ethically acceptable and ought to be regulated by the existing agency.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has already received several requests from researchers to begin experiments with hybrids, including one from Dr. Ian Wilmut, the creator of Dolly the cloned sheep and one of the signatories of the Times letter.
Britain is regarded by many scientists and ethicists as having the most permissive national regulatory agency in the world. In recent years, the HFEA has allowed the creation of genetically modified designer babies to be used as tissue farms for sick siblings; the creation of cloned human embryos for stem cell experiments and the eugenic selection and destruction of defective human embryos in IVF treatments.
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; United Kingdom
KEYWORDS: bravenewworld; chimera; chimeras; embryonicstemcells; geneticengineering; genetics; moralabsolutes; prolife
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The depravity of the culture of death has just gone to a whole new level.
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:25:51 PM PST
by
wagglebee
To: cgk; Coleus; cpforlife.org; Mr. Silverback; narses; 8mmMauser
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:26:27 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: BykrBayb; T'wit; bjs1779
The bioethicists seem to be developing a whole new circle of hell.
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:27:24 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: 230FMJ; 49th; 50mm; 69ConvertibleFirebird; Alexander Rubin; An American In Dairyland; Antoninus; ...
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:27:42 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
This is where science goes without the religious aspect. Those who say science and religion should be kept separate are hastening the destruction of the human race.
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:29:56 PM PST
by
metmom
(Welfare was never meant to be a career choice.)
To: wagglebee
Did Dr. Mengele sign the open letter?
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:31:02 PM PST
by
BykrBayb
(Be careful what you ask for, and even more careful what you demand. Þ)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:42:50 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
To: BykrBayb
In his most evil fantasies, I doubt Mengele ever envisioned that within a few generations a non-totalitarian government would actually publicly allow such policies.
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:43:21 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:54:52 PM PST
by
tranzorZ
To: wagglebee
Bart Simpson: "Would it be possible to create a half-man, half-monkey hybrid?"
Teacher: "I'm sorry, but that would be playing God."
Bart Simpson: "God, schmod, I want my monkey-man!"
To: Chode
Yeah, but Wells was a socialist one-worlder
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posted on
02/27/2007 4:58:20 PM PST
by
Oztrich Boy
( for those in Rio Linda, there's conservapedia)
To: wagglebee
I am so glad the scientists didn't take me from my mother's womb, and use me to create a half human/half animal, and then take my parts to use for someone else. How about you?
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:04:57 PM PST
by
kitkat
(The first step down to hell is to deny the existence of evil.)
To: wagglebee
HFEA (Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority) has allowed the creation of genetically modified designer babies to be used as tissue farms for sick siblings; the creation of cloned human embryos for stem cell experiments and the eugenic selection and destruction of defective human embryos in IVF treatments. Those academic ethicists are such rascally cannibals don'tchaknow. Humans now commodities for harvesting to sustain older human beings ... but then, some even at FR don't believe there is a human being present until birth. Go figure; failure of the public school system I suppose.
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:08:08 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
To: Oztrich Boy
did you read underpeople? is it any good???
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:09:22 PM PST
by
Chode
(American Hedonist ©®)
Comment #15 Removed by Moderator
To: MHGinTN
some even at FR don't believe there is a human being present until birth. They also have no problems with a judge with no medical training deciding that a woman who is conscious but unable to speak really wants to experience the "euphoria" that accompanies being starved and dehydrated to death.
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:12:19 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
What I want to say can't be said in public. (Mentally placing tight gag over my mouth..)
What is it going to take to stop the screaming nosedive into hell?
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:16:58 PM PST
by
little jeremiah
(Only those who thirst for truth can know truth.)
To: little jeremiah
Maybe for practice they will cross a pit bull with a cobra and then it will turn on the researchers.
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:18:55 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
To: wagglebee
These creatures do seem to be in the same gaggle.
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:20:56 PM PST
by
MHGinTN
(If you've had life support. Promote life support for others.)
To: MHGinTN
These creatures do seem to be in the same gaggle. Not just the same gaggle, they're the same people.
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posted on
02/27/2007 5:23:09 PM PST
by
wagglebee
("We are ready for the greatest achievements in the history of freedom." -- President Bush, 1/20/05)
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