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Britain OKs Hybrid Human Cloning Combining Animal and Human DNA

London, England (LifeNews.com) -- Members of the British Parliament, on a lopsided vote, approved allowing scientists to make hybrids combining animal and human DNA in human cloning attempts. The House of Commons rejected an amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill that would have prevented it. MPs voted 336 to 176 against the amendment from Tory former minister Edward Leigh. He said the use of hybrid clones cross an "entirely new ethical boundary," and turn the UK into a scientific "rogue state." "In many ways we are like children playing with landmines without any concept of the dangers of the technology that we are handling," he said, according to a Press Association report. Members of parliament also voted 286 to 223 to reject a second amendment that would have prohibited so-called "true hybrids" using the sex cells of a human and an animal. Any human embryos created with human and animal DNA would be killed 14 days after their creation. Scientists say they want to engage in human cloning to obtain more embryonic stem cells for research even though they've never helped patients with diseases. The votes are the first in a series of votes on amendment to the bioethics bill and others will likely try to limit late-term abortions, allow just one doctor to sign off on abortions and deal with other issues like in-vitro fertilization.
Ref. https://www.lifenews.com/bio2447.html

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JB made a definite point there. If this were being done in secret by a less popular nation this would be seen as horrific but now in 2008 it's acceptable? Why I wonder?

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This is a very scary situation! It seems as if only 1/3 of them have senses about them! What does the other approx. 2/3 stand to gain from this?