US bishops criticise plans for ‘grossly unethical’ research into human-animal hybrid embryos

[_Abyssinia]

The National Institutes of Health plan to lift ban on research funds for part-human, part-animal embryos

The US Conference of Catholic Bishops have said that proposals by the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to authorise federally funded research on part-human, part-animal embryos are “grossly unethical.”

The bishops made ethical and legal arguments in opposing the plan in a submission to the institute this week, saying that such research would result in “beings who do not fully belong to either the human race or the host animal species.”

catholicherald.co.uk/news/2016/09/07/us-bishops-criticise-grossly-unethical-research-into-human-animal-hybrid-embryos/

 

[Deltadeliquent]

WHAT is going on with the human race these days?
Incomprehensible, but reprehensible.

 

[edwest2]

Get a copy of The Abolition of Man by C.S. Lewis. The thinking is simple: humans can be manipulated and we’ll see what benefits that brings us. It’s a core of scientists who apparently have no ethical concerns but only want to see the results. How far they can modify men. It’s the old ‘mad scientist’ scenario with new technology.

Pray and pray some more.

Ed

 

[ClearWater]

We’ll be like mythology with half animal, half human hybrids.

 

[Hatikvah]

We’ll be like mythology with half animal, half human hybrids.

Be glad that they are not intending a “hybrid” yet, many of these articles say that they are for finding cures or treatments for disease.

 

[7_Sorrows]

is it true our current president is for this type of research?

 

[Paganus]

The National Institutes of Health plan to lift ban on research funds for part-human, part-animal embryos

Well the current crop of politicians aren’t getting any younger…

 

[edwest2]

Well the current crop of politicians aren’t getting any younger…

Uhhh… I’m not voting for Cthulhu.

Ed

 

[Hatikvah]

is it true our current president is for this type of research?

We can take a reasonable guess, having had him for almost eight years and also with him being a social liberal (but tell me again how this is a “social” issue where people have the right to “choose”?)

 

[mikekle]

Be glad that they are not intending a “hybrid” yet, many of these articles say that they are for finding cures or treatments for disease.

And sometimes they tell us what sounds good/ beneficial, not the actual truth.

Back in WW2, the Nazis had a project going on for at least 2 years, trying to make a hybrid man-wolf, who knows how far they came, and they did not have the technology we do today.

Id say, someone, somewhere has likely already created a hybrid(s), they are just trying to warm us up to the idea.