[Western Journal] Senate Democrats have rejected an amendment that would criminalize research that creates chimeras — also known as animal-human hybrids.According to a Fox News report, the 49 votes against amending the Endless Frontier Act consisted of 47 Democrats and two independents, Sens. Bernie Sanders of Vermont and Angus King of Maine.
Forty-eight Republicans supported the measure which also contained language "barring the transfer of a human embryo to a non-human womb and vice versa," according to the report.
Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Republican Sens. Tom Tillis of North Carolina and Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee did not vote.
"We shouldn’t need to clarify in law that creating animal-human hybrids or ’chimeras’ is ethically unthinkable, but sadly the need for that very clear distinction has arrived," said Oklahoma Republican Sen. James Lankford, who co-sponsored the bill with his colleagues, Sens. Mike Braun of Indiana and Steve Daines of Montana.