I didn’t watch it, not when everyone and their cousin would transcribe it in real-time. For those of you unfamiliar with Bush’s latest State of the Union address, he notes:
Tonight I ask you to pass legislation to prohibit the most egregious abuses of medical research, human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling or patenting human embryos.
As one scientist cum pundit has noted, this is just political chicanery shrouded in an emotional appeal against a non-existent Frankenstein.
Oddly enough, the increasingly thought provoking blokes at ‘Damn Interesting‘ recently wrote about a real life, naturally occurring chimera:
Imagine if you discovered one day that two of your three children were genetically not yours. Recriminations, marital troubles, perhaps a divorce, right? Now add a twist. What if you were these children’s mother? Suddenly the question becomes not “Who?� but rather “Huh?�Yet that’s what happened to “Jane�. At the age of 52 when her children were full-grown, she and her children underwent genetic testing for a possible kidney transplant. Completely unexpectedly, two of her three children tested as genetically not hers. A mix-up of babies was ruled out, and she and her husband had not undergone in vitro fertilization, so it was absolute that her children were hers.
Should we count the days until this freak of nature is stoned for procreating such an odd hybrid?