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[LA] Senate passes animal-human hybrid research ban
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| Contributor | Brandonius Maximus |
| Last Edited | Brandonius Maximus May 18, 2009 06:11pm |
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| Category | Proposed Legislation |
| Media | Newspaper - New Orleans Times-Picayune |
| News Date | Tuesday, May 19, 2009 12:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | BATON ROUGE -- The Senate voted without debate or dissent today to outlaw research designed to create animal-human hybrids, a practice that is apparently not occurring in the state but is cast by legislative critics as a potential violation of Louisiana's ethics and morals.
Senate Bill 115 by Sen. Danny Martiny, R-Kenner, lays out specific scientific acts that would result in jail time and fines for researchers and others who profit from such activities.
Senators raised no questions before sending the bill to the House with a 38-0 vote. In a Senate committee last week, senators heard from impassioned supporters and, separately, from one scientist who warned such restrictions could send intellectual capital and research money elsewhere.
Under Martiny's bill, violators would be subject to a prison term of as long as 10 years and a fine of up to $10,000. Profiting from the forbidden activity would command additional civil fines of $1 million or double the gain from the research, whichever is greater.
Martiny said the civil fine is targeted at researchers and other primary employers or executives of research operations rather than unwitting shareholders of an offending entity.
Dorinda Bordlee, a frequent Capitol presence representing the Bioethics Defense Fund, said during the committee hearing that she does not know of any such research occurring in Louisiana. But lawmakers, she said, should be proactive in preventing the activities. |
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