No real need to read this, believe me.
To sum it up as quickly as possible, a Church of Scotland elder who also happens to be a supposedly trained biochemist has issued warnings about the human embryo bill that's currently going through
- he wants it to stop humans from impregnating monkeys. For the record, I've never met anybody who would want to impregnate a monkey. There's also the tiny detail that, y'know, IT'S HIGHLY IMPLAUSIBLE! It's not even likely to work, let alone something that's even been considered.
But don't let that get in the way of a good rant. Apparently we're going to see monkeys impregnated, and the monkey-human hybrid offspring used for organ harvesting. And we're going to see that as morally acceptable because monkeys are just animals.
For the record, the cheapest way to harvest organs is to grow them yourself, using stem cells.
Doing so does not require you to create and abort an embryo, it doesn't involve killing things, and it doesn't involve mucking about with genetics. Theoretically you can grow organs from tissue samples. If we're going to see organ harvesting in labs, that's a lot more likely than doing it with humonkeys.
Did you know some Chimera embryos got made a few weeks back? Yeah, while the government was still debating a bill on wether or not to ban them. What interests me is, there's been zip all activity from teh church in protest. I mean, there where folk on the TV all the time complaining about it being so wrong, but once it happens, zilch. Ok, so from what I'm aware it was on the Catholic church and certain sections of the Anglican church that had a problem with it, and that seemed to be based on a complete lack of understanding of how the whole thing works, but even so. What happened to standing up for morality? It doesn't just end when people go get away with it, guys!
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