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OH Senate Passes Bill Banning Human-Animal Hybrids

Posted by samzenpus on from the no-centaurs-allowed dept.

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."

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  1. not so simple... by martyb · · Score: 4, Interesting

    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.