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OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids
An anonymous reader writes "The sci-fi movie Splice seems to have scared the Ohio's State Senator Steve Buehrer. The Ohio Senate has passed Sen. Buehrer's bill banning 'the creation, transportation, or receipt of a human-animal hybrid, the transfer of a nonhuman embryo into a human womb, and the transfer of a human embryo into a nonhuman womb.' So much for Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles."
Anyone know why you screw a sheep on the edge of a cliff?
Makes the sheep push back harder.
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Whether you agree with the bill or not, it will have an effect:
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2005/01/0125_050125_chimeras.html; link from wikipedia entry: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chimera_(genetics)
The rabbit/human embryo mentioned there falls under 3701.95.A.1.e. of the bill: "an embryo produced by introducing a human nucleus into a nonhuman egg".
"They were pure niggers." – Noam Chomsky
From TFB:
(1) "Human-animal hybrid" means any of the following:
(a) A human embryo into which a nonhuman cell or a component of a nonhuman cell is introduced so that it is uncertain whether the human embryo is a member of the species homo sapiens;
(b) A hybrid human-animal embryo produced by fertilizing a human egg with a nonhuman sperm;
(c) A hybrid human-animal embryo produced by fertilizing a nonhuman egg with a human sperm;
(d) An embryo produced by introducing a nonhuman nucleus into a human egg;
(e) An embryo produced by introducing a human nucleus into a nonhuman egg;
(f) An embryo containing at least haploid sets of chromosomes from both a human and a nonhuman life form;
(g) A nonhuman life form engineered with the intention of generating functional human gametes within the body of a nonhuman life form;
(h) A nonhuman life form engineered such that it contains a human brain or a brain derived wholly from human neural tissues.
A human with a pig heart valve would not meet any of those qualifications.
Weren't the TMNT caused by an accident (radioactive spill from a truck) anyway?
Unless this law also prohibits the transportation of mutantigenic compounds, then it wouldn't outlaw a legally produced TMNT.
I was under the impression that the spill was due to an illegal cargo anyway, so realistically, a law wouldn't do much anyway.
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Too bad its not science fiction. I personally know a group of scientists that create rabbit human embryos. Also there has been a lot of research in growing human organs in pigs". So we are already producing animal-human hybrids. Hell we even grow human ears on mice.
Victory for Al Gore!
I'm super serial!
if (it != oneThing) it = another;
Arizona is working on it as well - the bill is supported by the Bioethics Defense Fund, the Arizona Catholic Conference, and members of the 40 Days for Life Campaign.
You need to stop letting science fiction dictate your thoughts.
How about a cow that can grow an extra heart for humans? A goat the produces human bone marrow?
There are thousands of good uses for this, but you let you belief take you scientist creating a bunch of freaks,.
You are narrow minded, blinded by faith and part of the problem.
This technology has a real good chance to help people. Don't you DARE try to take the moral high ground in preventing medical research that can save lives. You are a small, mean, and evil person who would rather people died horrible deaths then toss a few genes and create a cheap treatment or cure for diseases.
You are a wast of human space that clings to some ideology that hasn't been needed for 100 or more years.
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The real joke is that you were tagged "Informative".