If you haven’t read anything about Britain’s move to allow human-animal hybrid embryo research, it’s sort of stunning. Stunning in the fact that the limeys seem to be pulling out all the stops for a full-steam ahead changeover from the UK to the Island of Dr. Moreau/Huxley’s London circa A.F. 632:

British scientists will be allowed to research devastating diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s using human-animal embryos, after the House of Commons rejected a ban yesterday.

An amendment to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Bill that would have outlawed the creation of “human admixed embryos” for medical research was defeated in a free vote by a majority of 160, preserving what Gordon Brown regarded as a central element of the legislation.

The Government is braced for defeat today, however, on a separate clause that would scrap the requirement that fertility clinics consider a child’s need for a father before treating patients. MPs will also consider amendments tonight that would cut the legal limit for abortion from 24 weeks to 22 or 20 weeks.

A second amendment, which would have banned the creation of “true hybrids” made by fertilising an animal egg with human sperm, or vice-versa, was also defeated yesterday by a majority of 63. Another free vote last night was expected to approve the use of embryo-screening to create “saviour siblings” suitable to donate umbilical cord blood to sick children.

For those who like to ask, “This is simply for research. What makes you think that manimals are going to start riding the subways, tails and feathers a flutter?” I would like to point your attention to an odd bit of sensemaking from the left:

Evan Harris, the Liberal Democrat MP for Oxford West, challenged those who accepted admixed embryos in principle but rejected “true hybrids” to explain the ethical difference between an embryo that was 99 per cent human and one that was 50 per cent human.

Dawn Primarolo, the Health Minister, agreed: “Once we go down that road it seems illogical to oppose a particular mix.”

Once we go down that road. A road we’re now heading down, in the dark, with the lights off, at double the speed limit.

It’s getting so easy to write believable science fiction these days that it’s a wonder anyone even has to try. Plagiarizing news stories would be sufficient.

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