by JivinJ
The crazy pro-choice letter of the week award goes to Jovan Byars of Williston, SC. In the Augusta Chronicle, Byars makes a number of claims against National Right to Life Committee including claiming they “constantly opposed expanding state CHIP programs,” failed “to condemn terrorist attacks on women’s health clinics,” “sat idly by as groups allied with the NRLC commit acts of terrorism again and again,” “they have only condoned those attacks again and again,” and “this past June 7, they were terrorizing women again, by lying about the birth control pills and their functions.”…
Before printing a letter like this, one would hope the editors of the Augusta Chronicle would ask Byars for some evidence to back up her statements, especially considering a minute on Google would have led them to discover the American Life League (not NRLC) was the group behind the June 7 birth control pill protests, NRLC has clearly spoken out against violence and NRLC has opposed amendments to SCHIP programs which might have led to rationing Medicare.
Brave New Britain strikes again. First, human-cow hybrid embryos and now researchers have been given the go ahead to try to create human-pig hybrid embryos.
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CA’s taxpayer supported embryonic stem cell agency) is already trying to figure out how they continue running after their $3 billion in funding runs out in 2017. One of their options is trying to get more public support.
[“Web grab” graphic courtesy of Times Online; human pig graphic courtesy of cracked.com]
by JivinJ
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
First, human-cow hybrid embryos and now researchers have been given the go ahead to try to create human-pig hybrid embryos.
Jill, to say the least, that’s some wild stuff – I’d never heard of it before.
A lot of good information is there if you keep following the links.
I’m wondering, if one believes that only humans have souls (and that ensoulment occurs at conception or by the embryonic stage), what percentage would an embryo have to be human to have a soul?
Ok. The human pig(hig)photo is freaking me out.
Now we KNOW Obama will win:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080701/D91LBD3O0.html
SOMG, this is not your propoganda site. 2 of your 3 posts were unpublished as completely irrelevant not only to this post but to any topic remotely associated with my blog. Start your own blog. Heed my request here.
Now we KNOW Obama will win:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080701/D91LBD3O0.html
Posted by: SoMG at July 2, 2008 6:58 AM ““““““““““““““““““““““““““` That’s what you said about Hillary. I see she’s winning.
Jill, THE WICKER MAN is a philosophical exploration of religion. Isn’t that relevant to your blog?
SOMG, this is not your propoganda site. 2 of your 3 posts were unpublished as completely irrelevant not only to this post but to any topic remotely associated with my blog. Start your own blog. Heed my request here.
Posted by: Jill Stanek at July 2, 2008 7:41 AM
Thank you Jill. SoMG has the wonderful tendency to hijack the comments on posts. Maybe that’s her whole purpose here besides propogating misinformation.
Carla, that pig pic has been here before and it’s pretty creepy!
Good question Doug. My guess is that a creature with mostly human attributes would be human. Lets hope we NEVER have to ponder this question in any great depth.
I for one, don’t relish creating Dr. Moreau’s Island.
It (THE WICKER MAN) is about a very devout Christian police officer who is forced to confront a neo-pagan society.
Jill, I bet if you watch it you will agree that it has relevance for your blog. Among other things it addresses questions about child-murder, and about resurrection and the immortality of the soul. Also about sexual morality.
Go Away SoMG.
Patricia, you can relax–the human-animal hybrid embryos are for research purposes only. There are no plans to try to grow them and they almost certainly wouldn’t grow if you did try.
I don’t see what the big deal is. They already have human-animal hybrids. I submit for your consideration James Carville.
SoMG,
Why is that?
X; ;-D
Xalisae: They already have human-animal hybrids. I submit for your consideration James Carville.
Ha! No doubt..gotta love it.
I’ve heard Snoop Dogg compared to a doberman pinscher, and Paris Hilton said to look like a preying mantis.
I think Julia Roberts looks a bit like a horse.
http://tinyurl.com/4q76l2
Let’s not forget: Jeanne Kirkpatrick is clearly part crocodile, and John McCain is part goat.
Doug,
“I’m wondering, if one believes that only humans have souls”
animals do have souls, just not immortal ones like us.
Rosie, interesting. I don’t go with the notion of immortal souls but do think that with pigs, dogs, etc., – there is “somebody” there.
http://tinyurl.com/56sqo9
Anybody know how Joe Scheidler’s suit against PP for defamation of character is going? They accused him of being a violent terrorist too.
I see diseases worse then manking has ever known coming from the growth of human/animal cells in pertri dishes.
should have read:
I see diseases worse then mankind has ever known coming from the growth of human/animal cells in pertri dishes.
Someone is trying to frighten you by making photo projects like that one. The human-cow and human-pig embryos are used for research only, and they’re not hybrids in the way you might think.
They don’t mix human DNA and animal DNA. They suck out the nucleus before replacing it with a human one. The articles say that there is a small amount of pig or cow DNA left, but they don’t all say that that’s mitochondrial DNA, the kind that works in the organelle. Even in the same species, mitochondrial and nuclear DNA don’t mix and don’t even use the same DNA language (the code tha tells the tRNA which amino acid to bring).
In other words, if one of these hybrid embryos were to be implanted into a woman and carried full-term, there is no reason to think that it wouldn’t grow into a perfectly normal human child, as healthy as any other.
I hope that clears it up a bit.
DRF: 5:58: In other words, if one of these hybrid embryos were to be implanted into a woman and carried full-term, there is no reason to think that it wouldn’t grow into a perfectly normal human child, as healthy as any other.I hope that clears it up a bit.
Eewwww! No one’s going to use me as a petri dish! It’s hard to believe something wouldn’t go awry! Are you a scientist?
The California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CA’s taxpayer supported embryonic stem cell agency) is already trying to figure out how they continue running after their $3 billion in funding runs out in 2017. One of their options is trying to get more public support
Can’t they use that tax money to fix CA’s budget problems instead?
It’s 2008 and they are worried about funding for 2017?
Every time I look at that pig picture, the funnier it gets!
It reminds me of the Goat professor, Dr. Dillamond, who had the ability to speak in the musical Wicked. (An excellent musical!)
Eewwww! No one’s going to use me as a petri dish! It’s hard to believe something wouldn’t go awry! Are you a scientist?
I hold a science degree if that’s what you mean, but I don’t consider myself to be a professional-level scientist. I just work for them.
Yes, something could go wrong, which is specifically why these embryos are never grown past a certain point. The point I’m trying to make with my explanation is that half-human creatures like the one in the picture are just fantasies and wouldn’t result from experiments like this one.
Yes, the idea is very very creepy. But a lot of the time, people confuse “makes me feel creeped out” with “must be immoral.” Cutting the heart out of a corpse and putting it in a living person probably creeped people out at first too, but now we do heart transplants all the time.
Dr. Dillamond?