The Daily Background
| I don’t even know what headline to give this
by Arlen Parsa
I’m sure all the pro-chimera lobbyists in Kansas there are patting each other on the back:
A proposed ban on human-animal hybrids died Friday when the House cut the heart out of a bill and ended debate early on the issue.
The vote was 63-52 against the proposal from Rep. Mary Pilcher Cook, R-Shawnee, to make it a felony to create or attempt to create a hybrid embryo or “non-human life form” with human brain tissue.
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Some House members questioned whether any such research is being conducted in Kansas, but Pilcher Cook said her review of medical literature suggests it’s happening elsewhere. A chimera, mentioned in her amendment, is a mythical Greek creature with a lion’s head, a goat’s body and snake’s tail.
The vote was 63-52 against the proposal from Rep. Mary Pilcher Cook, R-Shawnee, to make it a felony to create or attempt to create a hybrid embryo or “non-human life form” with human brain tissue
I know the President talked about animal-human hybrids in the State of the Union (and was consequently widely ridiculed in the blogosphere), but I don’t think anyone was actually expecting action– much less a ban on “chimeras” to be proposed. Full article. H/t HuffPo.
[…] Oh my goodness. Has another silly anti-chimera law been proposed already?! Unfortunately for the sake of humor and opportunities to make fun of the GOP, no. This article was about something much more serious. […]