Guardian - Ban on hybrid embryos fails
An attempt to ban the use of hybrid human-animal embryos for scientific research was rejected in the House of Commons tonight. Voting was 176 to 336, a majority of 160, during the committee-stage debate on the human fertilisation and embryology bill
"debate" continues keep to the Fen Causeway
What worries me is that a NuCon majority would reverse those numbers, and we'd see the UK heading at best speed in the direction the US is about to reverse from.
Or something. Conservatives want live babies so they can raise them to be dead soldiers. - George Carlin
they thought that importing jamaicans would do it, but that didn't fly...
or swim, or something... ~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~
Next up, the needs for fathers, and the abortion limit. I personally haven't enjoyed the way either of those debates have happened in the press. The very fact that the people keen to defeat the amendment presented new evidence against the viability of pre 26 week births, is a real problem. They might win the battle, but they lost the (framing) war.
Now everybody will expect the limit to shift back and forth as new evidence concerning viability is produced. If they had talked about women's rights, and won on those terms, it could have saved the issue for a much longer time. Member of the Anti-Fabulousness League since 1987.
