"The fact that the English House of Commons rejected an amendment that would put a ban on the generation (through a cloning-like technique) of human hybrids for scientific research is a serious defeat both practically and symbolically, because it shows that politics is incapable of managing scientific research while protecting the fundamental principle of every democracy", the one "which places the impossibility to dispose of human life as the foundation of social cohabitation and as the basis for the acknowledgement of human dignity". This is the comment of Adriano Pessina, director of the Bioethics University Centre of the Catholic University of Rome, about the law on hybrid embryos that was approved yesterday by the British Parliament under which man-bovine hybrids can be generated and a child can be conceived without a father. "Human dignity is co-extended to human identity, which is a corporeal identity explains Pessina . All the history of man’s rights involves the belief that man can never become just a means for other people’s interests" nor "hybridising as one likes. (continued)
