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Catholic Church Endorses Inter-species Relationships (as long as it produces offspring)

I thought I had seen it all and then I saw this at Americablog. Thinking John must be just be kidding us, you know, blog joshing, ha ha, hey, good one, John. Then I checked and saw this at National Geographic!

THEY’RE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT MAKING PEOPLE OUT OF MICE! AND THEY THINK IT’S NORMAL!

Ok, I’m gonna settle down and write this story. Now, we all know that the Catholic Church insists on chastity for its priests, nuns and above. Chastity is defined as abstinence from sexual intercourse with the opposite sex. (I’m assuming that’s their definition because of all the same sex and fondling type activity that seems to be permissible) Anyway, despite the churches ban on abortions, birth control and premarital sex, when it comes to a woman raising a child that was fathered by a different species of animal, well, they are ok with that. From Americablog:

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 to create 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 scrutinizing the draft legislation, said that the genetic mothers of “chimeras” should be able to raise them as their own children if they wished.

The bishops said that they did not see why these “inter-species” embryos should be treated any differently than others.

Experiments were first done in China where human and rabbit cells were successfully mixed and allowed to survive for just a few days. Last year, at the Mayo Clinic, piglets with human blood flowing in their veins were developed. (getting queasy yet?) And at Stanford, plans are in the making for next year to produce mice with human brains.

David Magnus, director of the Stanford Center for Biomedical Ethics at Stanford University, believes the real worry is whether or not chimeras will be put to uses that are problematic, risky, or dangerous.

“For example, an experiment that would raise concerns, he said, is genetically engineering mice to produce human sperm and eggs, then doing in vitro fertilization to produce a child whose parents are a pair of mice. Most people would find that problematic,” he said.

Um, problematic David? PROBLEMATIC? THAT MY PARENTS ARE A COUPLE OF RATS…PROBLEMFUCKINGMATIC?

Whew! Ok, sorry. I shouldn’t get so emotional when I’m writing. Afterall, I am a professional! Infact, I think the Catholics might have a point. If we can successfully germinate these chimera, raise them, educate them, refine them, teach them manners and etiquette then by God, maybe someday one of them could become a member of society, could, you know, fit in. Why, they could even become successful! They could even be…. the pope! See why I call it World Gone Mad?

PS: You Catholics out there. Don’t get on my case. Your church said it, not me.

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