{"id":6503,"date":"2006-02-01T12:59:12","date_gmt":"2006-02-01T17:59:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thecarpetbaggerreport.com\/?p=6503"},"modified":"2006-02-01T12:59:12","modified_gmt":"2006-02-01T17:59:12","slug":"monsters-monsters-everywhere","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/monsters-monsters-everywhere\/","title":{"rendered":"Monsters, monsters everywhere"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, David Stevens, executive director of the Christian Medical &#038; Dental Associations, said medical professionals need to be able put their personal beliefs <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/content\/article\/2006\/01\/29\/AR2006012900869.html\">ahead of their professional responsibilities<\/a> because of new scientific advances that could &#8220;violate their consciences.&#8221; What are these advances?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;We are moving into a brave new world of cloning, cyborgs, sex selection, genetic testing of embryos,&#8221; Stevens said.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Then, last night, the president urged lawmakers to pass legislation curbing what he considers &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/news\/releases\/2006\/01\/20060131-10.html\">egregious abuses of medical research<\/a>,&#8221; including:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;human cloning in all its forms, creating or implanting embryos for experiments, creating human-animal hybrids, and buying, selling, or patenting human embryos.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I&#8217;m hardly an expert in medical research, but exactly how worried are we that cyborgs and human-animal hybrids are right around the corner? And what about the dreaded cyborg-human-animal trifecta?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Earlier this week, David Stevens, executive director of the Christian Medical &#038; Dental Associations, said medical professionals need to be able put their personal beliefs ahead of their professional responsibilities because of new scientific advances that could &#8220;violate their consciences.&#8221; What are these advances? &#8220;We are moving into a brave new world of cloning, cyborgs, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[617],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6503","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6503"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6503\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6503"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6503"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stevebenen.com\/thecarpetbaggerreport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6503"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}