British scientists will be allowed to use hybrid embryos as they research cures for Alzheimer's and Parkinson's diseases, it was announced today. No, hybrid embryos are not fossil fuels working in partnership with charged batteries. Hybrid (or admixed) embryos mingle animal and human DNA.
An embryo, as defined by MedicineNet.com, was -- at least at one time -- on its way to becoming a fetus. Nothing suggests in that definition a viable life or a thriving soul.
This country -- our country, the country in which we live, the country we love -- has, for some time, been stuck in a Victorian era quagmire of moral misdirection. We don't allow embryonic research because enough people here believe a single cell can live on its own that they have the power to stop medical research. So while the Right To Lifers keep us trembling and forgetting, those Brits have taken this area of research to a new level.
None of today's news reports, however, dared to describe how, exactly, those admixed embryos are created. Some explanations are too much for the common mind to consider.
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