Theos-Talk Archives (October 2008 Message tt00807)

Hi all,

Maybe here is a little bigger picture:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbgHyrmgRZM

Best regards,
Anton


--- In theos-talk@yahoogroups.com, Cass Silva <silva_cass@...> wrote:
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> Also it will prove that we are the ancestors of the apes and not 
the other way around - can you expand on the heliosphere
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> Cass
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> From: Martin <Mvandertak@...>
> To: theos-talk@yahoogroups.com
> Sent: Thursday, 23 October, 2008 7:03:37 PM
> Subject: Re: Theos-World British MPs back animal-human embryo 
research
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> I wonder if the Solar Lords will dig this, they didn't in 
Atlantis...the sun is btw very quiet at the moment and its 
heliosphere has shrunk more than 25% the last 25 years...this could 
mean part destruction of this earth by cosmic fire.
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> --- On Thu, 10/23/08, nhcareyta <nhcareyta@yahoo. com.au> wrote:
> From: nhcareyta <nhcareyta@yahoo. com.au>
> Subject: Theos-World British MPs back animal-human embryo research
> To: theos-talk@yahoogro ups.com
> Date: Thursday, October 23, 2008, 4:49 AM
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> Britain's lower house of parliament has approved legislation 
allowing 
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> scientists to create animal-human embryos for medical research, in 
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> the biggest shake-up of embryology laws in two decades.
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> Despite opposition from religious and pro-life groups, MPs in the 
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> House of Commons today backed the Human Embryology and 
Fertilisation 
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> Bill by 355 votes to 129. 
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> It will now go to a vote in the House of Lords, and could be law by 
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> November.
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> The wide-ranging bill, which has been debated for months, would 
also 
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> allow "saviour siblings" - children created as a close genetic 
match 
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> for a sick brother or sister so their genetic material can help 
treat 
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> them.
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> In addition, it gives lesbians and single women easier access to in-
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> vitro fertilisation (IVF) treatment by removing requirements for 
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> clinics to consider a child's need for a father.
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> Health Minister Dawn Primarolo told MPs the bill was about helping 
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> the one in seven couples who needed fertility assistance, and about 
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> research to deal with diseases such as Alzheimer's, which affects 
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> 350,000 Britons.
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> Hybrid embryos, created by inserting the nuclei of a human cell 
into 
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> an animal egg, can ensure a more plentiful supply of stem cells for 
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> use in research into treating conditions like Alzheimer's and 
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> Parkinson's.
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> "It is about research to deal with the dreadful diseases and the 
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> debilitating attacks on their health from which many in our society 
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> suffer," the minister told MPs.
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> "The bill is about combining science with an ethical framework that 
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> works on behalf of humankind."
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> Prime Minister Gordon Brown is a strong defender of the measures, 
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> saying Britain owes it to future generations. His son Fraser has 
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> cystic fibrosis, a disease that could one day benefit from embryo 
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> research.
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> However, 16 MPs from his ruling Labour party, including former 
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> minister Ruth Kelly, a staunch Catholic who quit the government 
this 
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> month, voted against the bill and religious groups warned it was 
the 
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> next step on a "slippery slope".
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> Nadine Dorries, a member of the opposition Conservative Party, told 
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> her fellow MPs that loopholes in the legislation raised the 
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> possibility of scientists attempting cross-breeding between humans 
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> and animals.
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> "Of all the experimental possibilities debated in the course of 
this 
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> bill, surely none is quite so utterly repulsive as the possibility 
of 
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> seeking to inseminate animals with human sperm," she said.
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> The debate was overshadowed by complaints from all sides that the 
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> government had blocked a discussion on reforming the abortion laws. 
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> Ministers suggested they did not think the current bill was the 
right 
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> time to do this.
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