I was just alerted of something very important.
Go to THOMAS, Library of Congress legislative information.
Under "Search Bill Text 109th Congress (2005-2006)," type in s659.
Click in the circle next to "Enter bill number" to designate a search for the bill by number.
Click the Search button.
If you need to be enticed, here's the title of the bill: Human Chimera Prohibition Act of 2005.
This means no centaurs or thundercats.
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Looking for more hypocrisy in the florida case? Check out todays Strib and look in the opinions page. There is a blurb about Dr. Bill Frist and a book he wrote in the late 1980's. Supposedly he had some good things to say about babies born in veggie states. He also said some nice things about harvesting their organs. It's worth picking up the star tribune.
I have just put a whole bunch of stuff up about human chimeras over at monkeysponge...as for frist:
Frist wrote a book in 1989 called Transplant where he advocated changing the definition of "brain dead" to include anencephalic babies. Anencephalic babies are in the same state as Terri Schiavo except that she suffered a physical trauma that put her into a vegetative state while the anencephalic babies are born that way.
This remarkable discovery buttresses the argument that Frist's advocacy for Schiavo is wholly political. How does he explain this remarkable inconsistency? Here is the relevant passage on Frist as quoted by the New Republic in 2003:
"And, although Frist writes frequently about the ethical issues surrounding transplants--for example, the question of when death begins--he approaches these issues in starkly scientific terms, with little patience for religious objections.
"Near the end of the book, for example, Frist suggests changing the legal definition of 'brain death' to include anencephalic babies, who are born with a fatal neurological disorder but show just the slightest hint of brain-stem activity. Such a change would make it possible to harvest their organs for transplant--something the Catholic Church and pro-life groups oppose. 'Three thousand anencephalic babies were born a year, enough to solve our demand many times over--but we never used them.'"
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