Way back in A.D. 2003, in one of my Human Life Studies minor courses at Franciscan University, we were discussing the possible long range complications of the human cloning/test-tube baby debacle.
Call us naive, but we thought it almost comedic to think that the crisis beginning with Roe v. Wade would go so outrageously far as to justify the splicing of a human and an animal. Little did i know that 4 years later, this unthinkable crime would be a reality. Read on:
Human-animal hybrid embryos conceived in the laboratory - so-called “chimeras” - should be regarded as human and their mothers should be allowed to give birth to them, the Roman Catholic Church said yesterday. Under draft Government legislation to be debated by Parliament later this year, scientists will be given permission for the first time to create such embryos for research as long as they destroy them within two weeks. But the Catholic bishops of England and Wales, in a submission to the Parliamentary joint committee scrutinising the draft legislation, said that the genetic mothers of “chimeras” should be able to raise them as their own children if they wished. Read more....
2 comments:
Interesting spin job by the media, sweeping the bishops' actual opposition to the creation of such creatures aside to make them look like a few nice, but sort of odd, old men.
Gotta love the secular media.
JD
With that said, I'd kind of like to see a hedgehog baby.
jdf
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