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Obama Administration Wants to Allow Scientists to Make Human-Animal Hybrids
Life Site News ^ | August 4, 2016 | STEVEN ERTELT

Posted on 08/04/2016 4:02:52 PM PDT by NYer

The Obama administration today announced it has flung the door wide open to scientists making grisly human-animal hybrids. After overturning the Bush administration limits on forcing taxpayers to fund embryonic stem cell research, this is the latest move by President Barack Obama to manipulate and destroy human life in unethical experiments.

Here’s more:

The federal government announced plans Thursday to lift a moratorium on funding of certain controversial experiments that use human stem cells to create animal embryos that are partly human.

The National Institutes of Health is proposing a new policy to permit scientists to get federal money to make embryos, known as chimeras, under certain carefully monitored conditions.

One issue is that scientists might inadvertently create animals that have partly human brains, endowing them with some semblance of human consciousness or human thinking abilities. Another is that they could develop into animals with human sperm and eggs and breed, producing human embryos or fetuses inside animals or hybrid creatures.

But scientists have argued that they could take steps to prevent those outcomes and that the embryos provide invaluable tools for medical research.

Bioethicist Wesley Smith has previously warned about letting scientists police themselves — because they often throw ethics and a respect for human life out the window.

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The real question is when are we going to enforce the regulations with sharp teeth? Do we need to criminalize these experiments to get scientists to stop? Because when we say, “ban ” certain kinds of experiments, we are pejoratively labeled as “anti science,” and that we should trust “the scientists” not to stray too far afield.

Talk is cheap. The truth is, I think many scientists oppose any permanent and meaningful restraints–on themselves and each other. If I am right, society will have to forcefully take matters into its own hands.

So just what will these scientists do?

Researchers in the U.S. are tinkering with a disturbing new experiment that mixes human and pig cells to produce a hybrid embryo. Scientists at the University of California, Davis are trying to use pigs as “biological incubators” to grow human organs, according to the report. Walter Low, a professor at the University of Minnesota, said scientists hope to develop a method to grow various organs for transplant, including pancreases, hearts, livers, kidneys, lungs and corneas.

Low explained that cells would be taken from the patient needing an organ and used to grow “an exact genetic copy” of that organ in a pig embryo. This method would reduce the chance of a patient’s body rejecting the organ transplant, he said.

Sometimes referred to as chimeras, animal-human hybrids have been the subject of experiments in the past. The University of Rochester implanted newborn mice with nascent human glial cells to test brain activity involved with learning and memory, LifeNews reported. The University of Wisconsin also has conducted human-animal studies.

There are serious concerns about the ethical implications of such research.

In 2009, pro-abortion President Barack Obama issued an executive order allowing funding on life-destroying embryonic stem cell research, including for human-animal hybrid embryos, LifeNews reported. This rescinded President George Bush’s policy prohibiting taxpayer-funding of the life-destroying practices.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; Government
KEYWORDS: ca; davis; embryos; obama
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To: NYer

Well, he’s destroyed our healthcare why not just go ahead and kill off all of mankind?


21 posted on 08/04/2016 4:21:47 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: NYer

I thought we had them already with his supporters.


22 posted on 08/04/2016 4:22:11 PM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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To: NYer

I thought we had them already with his supporters.


23 posted on 08/04/2016 4:22:13 PM PDT by ZULU (Donald Trump is the biggest threat to the New World Order since Barry Goldwater)
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To: NYer

Every one of the hybrids would have more documentation
than the Impostor Obama.


24 posted on 08/04/2016 4:22:17 PM PDT by Diogenesis ("When a crime is unpunished, the world is unbalanced.")
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To: Bobalu

Now there’s a dog I WOULD kick.


25 posted on 08/04/2016 4:22:59 PM PDT by Bullish (That establishment heads from both sides are exploding over Trump is the very best part.)
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To: Crucial

They will bring back SLAVERY, reversing the Republican agenda.


26 posted on 08/04/2016 4:23:07 PM PDT by Liberty Ship ("Lord, make me fast and accurate.")
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To: NYer

After seeing pics from the Democrats convention, I thought they were already doing this.


27 posted on 08/04/2016 4:26:13 PM PDT by digger48
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To: digger48

LOL.

5.56mm


28 posted on 08/04/2016 4:26:58 PM PDT by M Kehoe
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To: NYer

The same people Who stand in front of the supermarket with the “No Frankenfood!” signs vote for the people promoting this crap.


29 posted on 08/04/2016 4:27:49 PM PDT by VTenigma (The Democrat party is the party of the mathematically challenged)
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30 posted on 08/04/2016 4:28:14 PM PDT by Bobalu (Democrats use guns to shoot the innocent. Republicans use them for self-defense.)
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To: NYer

Fifty years go this was mentioned in a tabloid as already happening. It seems the embryos kept self aborting.


31 posted on 08/04/2016 4:29:35 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: NYer

Too late; check the bampster’s ears.


32 posted on 08/04/2016 4:29:40 PM PDT by sasquatch
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To: Bullish

Just what the world needs. Centaurs and Minotaurs. There is a reason different species when, bred together will self abort, or the offspring will be sterile.


33 posted on 08/04/2016 4:33:46 PM PDT by Ruy Dias de Bivar
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To: NYer

34 posted on 08/04/2016 4:34:09 PM PDT by Bobalu (Democrats use guns to shoot the innocent. Republicans use them for self-defense.)
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35 posted on 08/04/2016 4:38:26 PM PDT by PLMerite (Compromise is Surrender: The Revolution...will not be kind.)
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To: Diogenesis

The last time l noticed FR under attack like this was back during the 1st xlintonista regime


36 posted on 08/04/2016 4:39:11 PM PDT by thinden
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To: Crucial
I can only guess what evil the Democrats have in mind for breeding such things.

All three of your answers are incorrect.

The correct answer is that these hybrids will be growing replacement organs for the ruling elite whose ultimate goal is to live forever. (Now you know why they want SO MUCH MONEY. Life extension experimentation is very expensive. )

That is why they allowed the sale of aborted babies. A newborn has cells that grow at an amazing rate. They want to find a way to use those cells to regenerate damaged organs. It hasn't been going well. On to the next phase, human/animal hybrids.

37 posted on 08/04/2016 4:39:12 PM PDT by UCANSEE2 (Lost my tagline on Flight MH370. Sorry for the inconvenience.)
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To: UCANSEE2

There is ALSO a hidden danger that not one media whore will address: when you start mixing genomes, there are disease which an animal has an immunity to, which humans do not have immunity to. These diseases are not going to care if the tissues are part human they will infect without mercy.


38 posted on 08/04/2016 4:46:48 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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39 posted on 08/04/2016 4:46:56 PM PDT by Bobalu (Democrats use guns to shoot the innocent. Republicans use them for self-defense.)
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To: Bobalu

ZActually, last name Williams.


40 posted on 08/04/2016 4:49:38 PM PDT by MHGinTN (A dispensational perspective is a powerful tool for spiritual discernment)
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