UK: Christians alarmed by extended animal-human hybrid embryo Bill
by Daniel Blake
Thursday, October 11, 2007

Christian lawyers have expressed concern as the Government issued its response to the Joint Committee’s report on the Human Tissue and Embryos Bill on Monday.

The report gives an idea as to what the amended Bill will look like when it is put before Parliament, probably in the coming session.

“One of the most concerning aspects of the Government’s response is that they have now taken their proposals to legalise animal-human hybrid embryos even further, by extending legislation not only to cover ‘cytoplasmic embryos’ (whereby human cells are inserted into an animal egg), but also to legalise so called ‘true’ hybrid embryos, which would be created by the mixing of human and animal gametes e.g. mixing human sperm with an animal egg, or vice versa,” said Andrea Minichiello Williams of the Lawyers Christian Fellowship (LCF). the rest