Of Cabbages and Kings, and Chimeric Creatures...
"The time has come the Walrus said, to think of other things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings..." Alice in Wonderland You might think you have fallen down a rabbit hole into an alternate universe when you hear about things like "interspecific chimeric brains", but we have written about this before. The issue of evolving notions of personhood is one that will continue to persist and cause much debate and discussion and, at the risk of repeating myself, if we, in the United States, are not willing to ban chimeric entities in a manner similar to Canada, we should be looking to preserve and expand human rights and human dignity despite that fact our ‘humanness’ and human nature is changing. - Linda Glenncontribute a comment
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Let's go for the whole Canadian law on clones and embryos, while we're at it.
- by Beverly on Apr 16, 2005 at 4:51 PM | link
Howdy. I wrote about this a while back, here, if anyone is interested. (I made one mistake, about a quote from the Nat. Geo. article about the possibility of 'genetically engineering mice to create human sperm and eggs', which I ridiculed for the wrong reason. Corrected in comments.)
- by hilzoy on Apr 16, 2005 at 7:32 PM | link
Beverly, I'm in agreement with you -- I think Canada did the right thing. Hilary, email me, I'm curious to see what you wrote (we'll compare notes)
- by Linda on Apr 17, 2005 at 2:21 AM | link
Just click the link, and you will find it. (Too long to paste here, or even email.)
- by hilzoy on Apr 17, 2005 at 8:56 PM | link