Senator Brownback is worried about human-animal hybrids and has entered a bill in the United States Senate. What is really amazing is this has 20 co-sponsors, including one democrat--Mary Landrieu(Jindahl just got this same type of bill into law in the good state of Lousiana).
Ya know, out of all the problems that I can come up with, this is not even in my top 100 of problems or even issues facing the American Public!
Some of the other co-sponsors? Senator Ensign and Coburn, McCain, L. Graham.
Senator Brownback stated on FB:
“Creating human-animal hybrids, which permanently alter the genetic makeup of an organism, will challenge the very definition of what it means to be human and is a violation of human dignity and a grave injustice.”
"The Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition Act would ban the creation of human-animal hybrids. Human-animal hybrids are defined as those part-human, part-animal creatures, which are created in laboratories, and blur the line between species. The bill is modest in scope and only affects efforts to blur the genetic lines between animals and humans. It does not preclude the use of animals or humans in legitimate research or health care where genetic material is not passed on to future generations, such as the use of a porcine heart valve in a human patient or the use of a lab rat with human diseases to develop treatments."
Brownback continued, “This legislation is both philosophical and practical as it has a direct bearing upon the very essence of what it means to be human, and it draws a bright line with respect to how far we can go in attempting to create new creatures made with genes from both humans and animals.
I guess you gotta have goals, but Mr. Brownback, I think its too late, considering it looks like you and 19 of your peers have made jack asses out of themselves with this bill!
Also, this isn't the first time a bill of this sorts was entered. The last one didn't make it out of committee.
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