Senate To Continue To Allow Mad Scientists To Crossbreed Man And Animals

The following report is from Forbes:

The U.S. Senate on Thursday voted along party lines to kill a Republican amendment to a technological development bill aimed at banning experiments to create “certain types of human-animal chimeras” – which scientists use to further medical research – over ethical concerns.

The amendment, proposed by Sen. Mike Braun (R-Ind.), failed with 48 Republicans voting for it, 49 Democrats voting against it and Sens. Thom Tillis (R-N.C.), Joe Manchin (D-W.Va.) and Marsha Blackburn (R-Tenn.) not voting.

The amendment defines “human-animal chimera,” as various combinations of human and non-human DNA, such as a human embryo “into which… nonhuman cells… have been introduced,” making the species of the embryo “uncertain.”

Another definition is a “nonhuman life form” that is “engineered” to exhibit “human facial features or other bodily morphologies to resemble human features.’

The amendment would have imposed either 10 years imprisonment or a fine of at least $1,000,000 – or both – for even attempting to create a human-animal chimera.

Braun, who is staunchly anti-abortion, said in a statement “human life is distinct and sacred,” and that such experiments are “unethical” and “should be a crime.”

The bill was endorsed by a slate of pro-life groups including National Right To Life, Susan B. Anthony List and the Family Research Council.

Scientists have spent decades creating chimeras to improve the testing of drugs and boost organ transplant research. But even within the scientific community, debates have raged about the relative “humanity” of chimeras and whether they are ethical.

There is a way to genetically engineer both the embryo and the stem cells so that the stem cells will only make a particular organ. Nobody wants a chimeric embryo to grow into a part-human, part-animal thing that has human cells from head to toe mixed in.

Bioethicist Insoo Hyun told NPR.

Another bizarre development in the Senate on Thursday was Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s decision to reverse the unanimous confirmation of Christine Wormuth as the first female secretary of the army earlier in the night. While Schumer’s move appeared to be merely procedural, it remains unclear if and when Wormuth will get a confirmation vote, and what the underlying motivation was. Forbes has reached out to Schumer’s office for comment.

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AUTHOR COMMENTARY

Behold, the days come, saith the LORD, that I will sow the house of Israel and the house of Judah with the seed of man, and with the seed of beast.

Jeremiah 31:27

A man that doeth violence to the blood of any person shall flee to the pit; let no man stay him.

Proverbs 28:17

Leave it to our wicked government to allow for the creation and acts of abominations to resume.

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[7] Who goeth a warfare any time at his own charges? who planteth a vineyard, and eateth not of the fruit thereof? or who feedeth a flock, and eateth not of the milk of the flock? [8] Say I these things as a man? or saith not the law the same also? [9] For it is written in the law of Moses, Thou shalt not muzzle the mouth of the ox that treadeth out the corn. Doth God take care for oxen? [10] Or saith he it altogether for our sakes? For our sakes, no doubt, this is written: that he that ploweth should plow in hope; and that he that thresheth in hope should be partaker of his hope. (1 Corinthians 9:7-10).

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