British Government Drops Plans to Ban Human/Animal Hybrids

LifeSiteNews ^ | 2/27/07 | Hilary White

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LONDON, February 27, 2007 (LifeSiteNews.com) – The British government’s 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 government’s 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.

 

Read related LifeSiteNews.com coverage:
UK Parliamentary Report Recommends Animal-Human Hybrids, Sex Selection and More
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/mar/05032406.html

 

Creator of Dolly Granted License to Clone Humans For Experimentation
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2005/feb/05020806.html

 

English Scientists Ask Permission to Create Human/Cow Clones
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/nov/06110707.html

 

UK Cloning Doctor Wants to Create Human/Rabbit Hybrid Clones
http://www.lifesite.net/ldn/2006/jan/06011306.html

[wagglebee]

The depravity of the culture of death has just gone to a whole new level.

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[wagglebee]

The bioethicists seem to be developing a whole new circle of hell.

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[metmom]

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.

[BykrBayb]

Did Dr. Mengele sign the open letter?

[Chode]

[wagglebee]

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.

[tranzorZ]

But I like Tauren!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tauren

[struwwelpeter]

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!"

[Oztrich Boy]

Yeah, but Wells was a socialist one-worlder

[kitkat]

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?

[MHGinTN]

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.

[Chode]

did you read underpeople? is it any good???

[wagglebee]

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.

[little jeremiah]

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?

[wagglebee]

Maybe for practice they will cross a pit bull with a cobra and then it will turn on the researchers.

[MHGinTN]

These creatures do seem to be in the same gaggle.

[wagglebee]

These creatures do seem to be in the same gaggle.

Not just the same gaggle, they're the same people.