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 tocreate 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.
Doesn't that violate the Biblical prohibition against bestiality? You remember the Bible? You quote incessantly in regards to homosexuality, but apparently this: And if a man lie with a beast, he shall surely be put to death; and ye shall slay the beast. - That's Leviticus 20:15. or: in a language you're more likely to comprhehend: qui cum iumento et pecore coierit morte moriatur pecus quoque occidite
Okay, the "Mom" decides she wants to birth the hybrid. What of the following:
Health Care. MD or DVM - Mumps or "Strangles"?
Education? Public School or Obedience School
Will using a cattle prod on you Oppositional-Defiant Minotaur brat be 'child abuse'?
Diet: Vegetarian or Cannabilism? Do you really want to run the risk of eating a relative?
would a 'chimera' be protected under the ADA?
How about friends? Will he/she be like Enkidu and friend only the Beasts of the field and wood? and can you raise a centaur in a 5 story walkup?
Who pays for the support of the "child"?
On the other hand, it does make for interesting body mods ala Samuel Delany's Empire Star
Stud Fees, anyone?
Yes, I'm being facetious, but the issue is serious. If We were created in God's image, as the Dominionists would force us to believe, why then, are they so silent on the issue of our playing God? perhaps, they wish to see pigs really fly?
or do they imagine themselves being hybridized with eagles and having the "Wings of Angels"?
A box larger and more destructive than anything Pandora could have forced open is before us.
The Minotaur
Once upon a time on the island of Crete, maybe about 1325 BC, there was a king whose name was Minos, and his wife was Queen Pasiphae (in the story; this is only a story). The gods were angry at Minos and Pasiphae (PAH-si-fay), and they made them have a monster for a baby, that was half man and half bull, and so it was called the Minotaur (tauros means bull in Greek).
By keliel at 2007-06-30
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