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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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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.
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.
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.