The lower house of parliament approved legislation Wednesday allowing scientists to create animal-human embryos for medical research, in the biggest shake-up of embryology laws in two decades.
Despite opposition from religious and pro-life groups, MPs in the House of Commons backed the Human Embryology and Fertilisation Bill by 355 votes to 129. It will now go to a vote in the House of Lords, and could be law by November.
The wide-ranging bill, which has been debated for months, would also allow “saviour siblings” — children created as a close genetic match for a sick brother or sister so their genetic material can help treat them.
Are you frightened yet about liberal scientism and what it is capable of? And how much do you have to hear before you acquiesce quietly to the Brave New World? Or are dragged screaming and protesting into it, where your anxieties will be treated and you will become quiet and well-adjusted. This may be England, but it is also the Obama world, the one that is about to rule America, from the White House through the Congress and eventually the Supreme Court. Nothing and nobody, it seems is capable of limiting the damage the liberal mentality can do to a sane society. Larry
This is sick, sick, sick. I’m sure that Josef Mengele and his cronies are smiling about this in whatever level of Hell they currently inhabit. They’d better be ready for more friends to join them.
This is the inevitable outcome for a society that has, as its sole interest, the gratification of all earthly desires without any thought of eternity.
[blockquote] “It is a man,†the voice repeated. “He comes to live with us?â€
It was a thick voice, with something in it—a kind of whistling overtone—that struck me as peculiar; but the English accent was strangely good.
The Ape-man looked at me as though he expected something. I perceived the pause was interrogative. “He comes to live with you,†I said.
“It is a man. He must learn the Law.â€
I began to distinguish now a deeper blackness in the black, a vague outline of a hunched-up figure. Then I noticed the opening of the place was darkened by two more black heads. My hand tightened on my stick.
The thing in the dark repeated in a louder tone, “Say the words.†I had missed its last remark. “Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law,†it repeated in a kind of sing-song.
I was puzzled.
“Say the words,†said the Ape-man, repeating, and the figures in the doorway echoed this, with a threat in the tone of their voices.
I realised that I had to repeat this idiotic formula; and then began the insanest ceremony. The voice in the dark began intoning a mad litany, line by line, and I and the rest to repeat it. As they did so, they swayed from side to side in the oddest way, and beat their hands upon their knees; and I followed their example. I could have imagined I was already dead and in another world. That dark hut, these grotesque dim figures, just flecked here and there by a glimmer of light, and all of them swaying in unison and chanting,
“Not to go on all-fours; that is the Law. Are we not Men? “Not to suck up Drink; that is the Law. Are we not Men? “Not to eat Fish or Flesh; that is the Law. Are we not Men? “Not to claw the Bark of Trees; that is the Law. Are we not Men? “Not to chase other Men; that is the Law. Are we not Men?â€
And so from the prohibition of these acts of folly, on to the prohibition of what I thought then were the maddest, most impossible, and most indecent things one could well imagine. A kind of rhythmic fervour fell on all of us; we gabbled and swayed faster and faster, repeating this amazing Law. Superficially the contagion of these brutes was upon me, but deep down within me the laughter and disgust struggled together. We ran through a long list of prohibitions, and then the chant swung round to a new formula.
“His is the House of Pain. “His is the Hand that makes. “His is the Hand that wounds. “His is the Hand that heals.†[/blockquote]
-From Chapter XII, [i]The Island of Dr. Moreau[/i] by HG Wells, published in 1896.
Even so, Lord Jesus, quickly come.
i need to point out that true tree huggers and naturalists like myself have never supported stem cell research. we think it is against the law of nature and God, coupled with the fact that overpopulation is overtaking the resources that the earth can produce to give us quality of life. i see a science fiction world of human farming like in the old book ‘coma’. oooh, makes me shudder…
however i think the comment that obama and the liberals would actually support this is pushing it, and even if they did, i don’t believe it would ever get through congress. but one can never tell, people predicted that terrible things would come to pass if bush won…
As we listen to the leftist politicians in the US and their hopes and plans for the US, we can’t be far behind if they take control of the House, Senate, White House and ultimately the Supreme Court. It is time for the voters of the US to wake up and look both at Canada and the UK for a preview. We are already on this same slippery slope with abortion “rights” which are legalized genocide and the spreading of other so called rights. We are creating a culture of DEATH to go along with the UK and the Dr. Frankenstein approach. This isn’t mocking God, this is PLAYING God, and I do not think HE will be well pleased.
I submit, magnolia, that such motions will pass because a liberal governing body will present all such genetic manipulation as being done for the good and the welfare of the greatest number. Who will have the courage in the Congress now to stand up and say, ‘This is a moral issue, first and foremost, and civil authority has no power to create such laws”? Only a cultural consensus on such issues can decide; then and only then can the civil authorities institutionalize this recommendation in laws. Larry