Posted on 06/26/2007 8:47:57 PM PDT by monomaniac
London, England (LifeNews.com) -- As the brave new world of bizarre scientific research expands further, pro-life advocates are increasingly forced to focus on the human rights of unborn children in different and unique ways. Catholic bishops in England now have the unenviable task of determining what rights human-animal hybrids should have.
The British government has proposed legislation the parliament will debate later this year that will allow scientists to create human-animal hybrids.
The bill mandates that the created entity, an unborn child who is 99.9 percent human and less than one percent animal, be destroyed within two weeks and not be implanted in a mother's womb.
Catholic Church leaders in England strongly oppose this cloning technique and the chimeras it will create, but they also oppose the destruction of the human embryo the cloning process creates.
On Tuesday, Church leaders said that if researchers are allowed to engage in the grisly science and create these chimera human embryos, the cloned embryos should be allowed to be born rather than killed for their stem cells for research.
The Catholic bishops of England and Wales submitted a letter to a parliament committee examining the legislation making their case.
The bishops said they didn't know why the “interspecies” embryos should be treated any differently than human embryos that are 100 percent human.
“At the very least, embryos with a preponderance of human genes should be assumed to be embryonic human beings, and should be treated accordingly," they said, according to a London Telegraph report.
“In particular, it should not be a crime to transfer them, or other human embryos, to the body of the woman providing the ovum, in cases where a human ovum has been used to create them," they added.
“Such a woman is the genetic mother, or partial mother, of the embryo; should she have a change of heart and wish to carry her child to term, she should not be prevented from doing so," they said.
But, ultimately, the bishops said the creation of human beings who are even slightly part animal is an evisceration of basic human rights.
Hoo Boy! I’m sitting this one out for a min and just watch the reaction :)
1st: Whaaaaat??
2nd: Did anyone else think “FMA?!” when they read the title?
Well, I’m all for it if they all turn out like Max from Dark Angel (Jessica Alba TV series of a few years ago).
She had feline DNA spliced into her and turned out to be just excellent.
Some of the other ‘chimeras’ though, I could just as well do without.
But seriously; I’m glad I don’t have to make decisions about this in real life. Just wish that those that DO make such decisions were more competent.
Natasha Kinski in cat people.Now that was a fine chimera.Except for the killing everyone part.
Financial Management Association? Fullmetal Alchemist? Please 'splain!
Marxists always on the quest to create the perfect sheeple...
Not only is this unethical, its downright dangerous. We hear the constant hysteria about “global pandemic”, then on the otherhand the unethical are messing around with genetics which could accidently create new strains of deadly disease which could cross the species barrier, disease such as mad cow (prionic mutations)
You are right. There;s a whole lot of ignorance out there. Giving a scientist carte blanche is like giving a five-year-old a box of matches to play with.
What are you, a homonculus?! ;^)
The brits are sick.
Per Exodus, if a man has sexual relations with an animal, both the man and the animal shall be put to death. If a woman has sexual relations with an animal, only the woman has been put to death. By my read, animals are blameless in such sexual relations, but the potential creation of a chimera would be unacceptable.
Good dog. Remember, not a word to my wife, OK?
I'll bring you a bone and some popsicles for the kids.
"Oi! What 'er yoo lookin' at mate?!?"
LOL - I thought it was kind of overrated/over-hyped. Plus, the only characters I liked were Scar, Greed, and Bradley, and, well, you know what happens to them...
Yeah. How do they insure that this hybridization stuff won’t make humans more susceptable to animal diseases? They think we should trust them with this. Sheeesh
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