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Support the Prohibition of Human-Animal Hybrids
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Source:
http://www.kintera.org/c.hiKPL9PQLtF/b.3975359/siteapps/advocacy/ActionItem.aspx?c=hiKPL9PQLtF&b=3975359&aid=10154
(The below letter has been edited slightly.)
Jane Doe
12345 Main St
Minneapolis MN 55418-3209
Date
The Honorable Amy Klobuchar [This legislator is used just as an example for
formatting.]
302 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington DC 20510-2305
Dear Senator Klobuchar:
Subject: Please Support the Prohibition of Human-Animal Hybrids
I am writing today to urge your support for the prohibition of human-animal
hybrids. We should place a ban on the creation, transfer, or transportation
of human-animal hybrids. A hybrid has cellular material of both a human and
an animal. Against strong opposition, this scientific experimentation has
been legally approved and acted upon in the United Kingdom.
The most important reason that I'm opposed to the creation of human-animal
hybrids is that it's an assault on human dignity. Also, hybrids could result
in a subclass of human beings used for spare parts or for other nefarious
purposes. Many environmental advocates fear that this technology could have
devastating effects on the natural environment and native species and wreak
havoc on ecosystems.
This "research" also has little-to-no potential for actually helping patients.
It is just science for science sake, and dangerous science at that. Human-animal
hybrids provide an excellent opportunity for cross-species disease such as
avian flu.
Please stand up for human dignity, and support banning of human-animal hybrids.
Thank you for your consideration of my position on this important issue.
I would appreciate a response to my letter.
Sincerely,
[Signature]
Jane Doe
Summary of This Issue
Source
at SBA-List.org (Note: this source page refers to proposed legislation
with bill numbers from the previous Congress):
Ban Human-Animal Hybrids
Scientists in the United Kingdom have created part-human, part-animal hybrid
embryos. Mermaids and centaurs may be mythological, but this is not science
fiction; it's science fact. Because of the shortage of human eggs for the
cloning process, scientists have turned to alternative egg sources -- animals;
namely, cows and mice. The creation of a hybrid is documented as legal in
the United Kingdom, but it is an open book here in the United States. In
the previous Congress (the 110th), Pro-life lawmakers Senator Sam Brownback
and Representative Chris Smith proposed the Human-Animal Hybrid Prohibition
Act. This act would have banned the creation, transfer, or transportation
of a human-animal hybrid. Hybrid technologies degrade human dignity. And
they could potentially lead to a subclass of human beings used for parts
and treated as less than human. The waters are murky. Furthermore, all this
experimentation would be in the name of science, not patients. Mixing animal
and human tissue and applying it to treatments could likely result in avian
flu or other yet-unknown cross-species disease outbreaks. We must ban this
outright and from the outset.
More on This Issue
New Research Study Challenges
Effectiveness of Human-Animal Hybrid Cloning
http://www.lifenews.com/bio2723.html
"For pro-life advocates, there is little ethical reason to support hybrid
cloning that involves the infusion of animal and human DNA together to create
a two-species embryo to be killed for research purposes. Now, a new study
finds there is little efficacy of such research, which sounds more like a
bad sci-fi movie. ..."
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