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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. Laws against science-fiction are stupid. by uncoveror · · Score: 4, Funny

    While they are at it, why not ban cloaking devices and disruptors.

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    1. Re:Laws against science-fiction are stupid. by 2obvious4u · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

    2. Re:Laws against science-fiction are stupid. by gestalt_n_pepper · · Score: 5, Funny

      That just makes me hopping mad!

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    3. Re:Laws against science-fiction are stupid. by d3ac0n · · Score: 4, Funny

      Forget the Rabit-human hybrids. What about the Catgirls?

      NOOOOOOO!

      ;)

      (Sorry I just couldn't help myself)

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    4. Re:Laws against science-fiction are stupid. by timeOday · · Score: 4, Insightful

      I guess it just goes to show how quickly a field is progressing when 2/3 of the comments on a slashdot story ignorantly assume it's still science fiction and couldn't possibly require legislation. However, I hope this is defined very carefully not to preclude important medical research. Growing a human ear on a mouse, for example, might seem like a gross waste of time, but perhaps not if you're a soldier whose soft tissue was burned off by an IED. (That image is from way back in 1997 BTW).

    5. Re:Laws against science-fiction are stupid. by StikyPad · · Score: 4, Funny

      Catgirls: because putting up with the cattiness of real girls just isn't enough, we added allergies to the mix.

      Worst. Idea. Ever.

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    6. Re:Laws against science-fiction are stupid. by DinDaddy · · Score: 4, Funny

      Should we have all laws passed by multiple Ph.D holders in selected fields who have little to no sense of humanity, only cold logic and rationale?

      Yes, scientists and other well educated people are inhumane, coldly logical killing machines. Mark well your fear. We are coming for you.

  2. transplants? by Scribbler'sEmporium · · Score: 5, Insightful

    No pig heart valves for you then when your own stops working.

    1. Re:transplants? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Informative

      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.

  3. Re:Here comes the boycott by Pojut · · Score: 5, Informative

    Anyone know why you screw a sheep on the edge of a cliff?

    Makes the sheep push back harder.

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  4. 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.

  5. Re:Ban Sci-Fi by jgagnon · · Score: 4, Funny

    What prevents a gene-splicer from creating, transporting, or receiving a human-animal hybrid in neighboring Michigan?

    Nothing... but figuring out which are hybrids and which are "normal Michigan residents" could be a problem... ;)

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  6. One question by $RANDOMLUSER · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...prohibits...the transfer of a nonhuman embryo into a human womb...

    Does this include baby Jesus?



    just askin'

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