{"id":543243,"date":"2021-05-27T16:05:57","date_gmt":"2021-05-27T20:05:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=543243"},"modified":"2021-05-27T16:05:58","modified_gmt":"2021-05-27T20:05:58","slug":"senate-democrats-vote-down-amendment-that-would-have-banned-certain-human-animal-hybrid-experiments","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/senate-democrats-vote-down-amendment-that-would-have-banned-certain-human-animal-hybrid-experiments\/","title":{"rendered":"Senate Democrats Vote Down Amendment That Would Have Banned Certain Human-Animal Hybrid Experiments"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fsenate-democrats-vote-down-amendment-that-would-have-banned-certain-human-animal-hybrid-experiments%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=543243&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/download-e1622142332920.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" \/><\/div>\n<p>The Senate narrowly voted down a Republican amendment on Wednesday that would have criminalized the creation of certain types of chimeras, or human-animal hybrids, for research purposes.<\/p>\n<p>The vote was 49-48 with every Senate Democrat, including Independent Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine, voting against the amendment. All Republicans voted in favor. Sens. Thom Tillis of North Carolina, Joe Manchin of West Virginia, and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee did not vote.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" readability=\"7.3069306930693\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">48-49: Senate defeats Braun (R-IN) amendment to prohibit certain types of human-animal chimeras. 60 votes were needed for passage. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/of3m3gLjSm\">pic.twitter.com\/of3m3gLjSm<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Craig Caplan (@CraigCaplan) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CraigCaplan\/status\/1397743089066852356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 27, 2021<\/a><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Proposed this week against the backdrop of the <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/03\/nih-director-lab-leak-hypothesis-covid-19-origins\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">National Institutes of Health<\/a> (NIH) potentially lifting its moratorium on <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/11\/fauci-denies-funding-gain-of-function-wuhan-lab\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">research<\/a> using chimeras, the Endless Frontier Act would have imposed penalties as high as $1 million and up to 10 years in prison, citing the ethical concerns of such research.<\/p>\n<p>The bill also contained language cracking down on the transfer of a human embryo to a non-human womb.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe shouldn\u2019t need to clarify in law that creating animal-human hybrids or \u2018chimeras\u2019 is ethically unthinkable, but sadly the need for that very clear distinction has arrived,\u201d said Republican Oklahoma Sen. James Lankford, who co-sponsored the amendment with Republican Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana and Steve Daines of Montana.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHuman life is distinct and sacred, and research that creates an animal-human hybrid or transfers a human embryo into an animal womb or vice versa should be completely prohibited, and engaging in such unethical experiments should be a crime,\u201d Sen. Braun added. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/05\/26\/senate-amendment-ban-gain-of-function-china\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(Senate Unanimously Passes Amendment Banning Gain Of Function Research In China, But There\u2019s A Huge Catch)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The International Society for Stem Cell Research (ISSCR) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/politics\/senate-human-animal-hybrid-experiments-chimera-ban-rejected\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">released<\/a> guidance on Wednesday backing chimeric research, saying that \u201cChimeric embryo and in utero research \u2026 should proceed for the minimum time necessary to achieve the scientific aim,\u201d according to Fox News.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis research must proceed incrementally, stopping at well-defined timepoints to assess the degree and scope of chimerism during development before proceeding to full gestation, if full gestation is among the well-justified goals of the research. To avoid unpredictable and widespread chimerism, researchers should endeavor to use targeted chimerism strategies to limit chimerism to a particular organ system or region of the gestating chimeric animal,\u201d the guidelines added.<\/p>\n<p>The NIH has yet to release its own guidance on human-animal hybrid research.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Senate narrowly voted down a Republican amendment on Wednesday that would have criminalized the creation of certain types of chimeras, or human-animal hybrids, for research purposes.The vote was 49-48 &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2313306,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/download-e1622142332920.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Democrats Vote Down Amendment That Would Have Banned Certain Human-Animal Hybrid Experiments","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-543243","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/download-e1622142332920.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"Senate Democrats Vote Down Amendment That Would Have Banned Certain Human-Animal Hybrid Experiments","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543243","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=543243"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/543243\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2313306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=543243"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=543243"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=543243"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}