oh goodie!

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now we can all move to kansas and start creating half human half clam (or any bi-valve of your choice) or half human half pygmy hippo creatures. yippeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee

Kansas House Rejects 'Hybrid' Cloning Ban
Last Updated:03-25-06 at 11:59AM
A proposed ban on human-animal hybrids died Friday when the House cut the heart out of a bill and ended debate early on the issue.The vote was 63-52 against the proposal from Rep. Mary Pilcher Cook, R-Shawnee, to make it a felony to create or attempt to create a hybrid embryo or "non-human life form" with human brain tissue. A first offense would be punished by up to five years and one month in prison and a fine of $1 million.Concerns about such hybrids, or "chimeras," are part of a larger debate over human cloning and medical research with embryonic stem cells. Pilcher Cook offered her ban as a substitute for a bill creating a new legislative committee on biosciences.Some House members questioned whether any such research is being conducted in Kansas, but Pilcher Cook said her review of medical literature suggests it's happening elsewhere. A chimera, mentioned in her amendment, is a mythical Greek creature with a lion's head, a goat's body and snake's tail..........