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Rating: 0 Topic: Seriously? Brownback Introduces Bill to Ban "Man-Animal Hybrids" (Read 467 times) |
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jwilkes
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« Reply #0: Jul 14, 2009, 11:18 AM »
It's hard to figure out just what is the most jaw dropping thing about this legislation. The timing? With all of the current challenges Congress faces, it's baffling that this is worthy of floor time in the Senate. Or maybe the sheer brazenness of being willing to associate one's name with a bill like this (i.e., "The Brownback Mermaid Eradication Act")? Or maybe it's this burning question: are the mad scientists close enough to creating one of these things that we really need to lay out some ground rules for our finned and four-legged bretheren? (Ethics aside, it's hard not to be at least a little curious.) I'm sure I've seen this in a movie somewhere. Brownback insists that the legislation is necessary given the current trajectory of science, and that such research would "blur the line between the species." [Laughter suppressed.] Taking this as seriously as humanly (no pun intended...well, ok, yes it was) possible, there is actually one area of concern with this bill: there are instances in which animal parts are u However, the language of the bill is actually quite vague. Nowhere does the text specifically lay out what type of creatures fall under its jurisdiction. Wait a minute...are we seriously talking about this? |
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uncannee
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« Reply #1: Jul 20, 2009, 4:00 AM »
We already have hybrids:
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A flailing economy, a Supreme Court confirmation fight, a push for health care reform, a move toward energy independence, and Republican Senator Sam Brownback of Kansas has a different priority: the two-term legislator has introduced a Senate bill that would ban the creation of "part-human, part-animal" hybrids. Take that, Centaurs, Minotaurs, and Mermaids.
sed in human surgerical procedures. For example, porcine valves are found to be fully transplantable from their pig host to human patients with heart valve deterioration. And there have been several instances in which a baboon heart has been (at least moderately) successfully transplanted into a human body. Brownback, a candidate for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination and a current candidate in the 2010 Kansas gubernatorial election, says the legislation wouldn't prevent these kind of medical procedures. 
