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."

Comments

not so simple...

[martyb]

Sounds pretty simple at first; but what about transplants?

For example, would this ban using a pig's heart valve from being transplanted into a person?  I had a family member who had this done!

Where do you draw the line? A whole heart?  A heart AND a liver AND a lung?

Who decides where the line is?  And what's to keep the line from moving?  And do we even want to keep it from moving?

I can think of arguments for all of these.

Re:Laws against science-fiction are stupid.

[ElectricTurtle]

It's not up to you? You don't live in a democracy? You don't vote?

It is incredibly important to establish whether something is wrong before you start banning it, otherwise you'll be on a bullet train to tyranny.

If you are being truthful when you say you're 'not in a position intellectually to say what is or is not best for society' please stop voting immediately if you haven't already. We have enough people who don't know anything about history or anything about ethics changing the course of political events based on knee-jerk ideology at best and their opinion of who is more visually attractive at worst that we don't need people who could otherwise self-select themselves out adding to the problem.

I had a history professor of whom I was quite fond say once that he hated democracy because he knew that his well-informed, well-reasoned choice could be blotted out in a second by the near-random opinion of his cretinous neighbor. The older I get and the more I read the more inclined I am to agree.