Ohio Senate Passes S.B. 243, Ohio’s Ban on Human-Animal Hybrid

Ohio Christian Alliance President Chris Long made the following statement, “For the past seven years, OCA has been working tirelessly with members of the Ohio Legislature to ban embryonic stem cell research, human cloning, and in recent years, animal-human hybrid. ...

Dr. David Prentice of the Family Research Council states, “Creating ‘experimental humans’ through nuclear transfer cloning or as animal-human hybrids is an unethical use of science, and will not lead to useful medical treatments for patients.  The focus should be on ethical and successful research that puts the patients first.”...

OCA President Chris Long stated, "The passage of this bill in the Ohio Senate marks a major pro-life victory.  No human life should begin and end as the subject of an experiment.  We attest that a process that knowingly encourages human life to be created, manipulated for research, and ultimately destroyed is immoral and should be prohibited.   All who believe that human life, including nascent human life, is a unique and precious gift from our Creator have an obligation to support efforts to ban it.  The research facilities in this state that did not oppose this legislation concur by their actions that ethical guidelines in the field of science do exist and that there are barriers that should not be breached."