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(LifeSiteNews) — Dutch Parliament is considering changing the legal definition of an “embryo” to include a human being created from the genetic material of two men, two women, or even one person.
“I’m calling on the international community to do something about the extreme disease that is in charge of the Netherlands,” author and commentator Johannes Koenraadt implored in a video message last week.
He shared that Parliament had just discussed new legislation that would allow embryos to be created from the genetic material of two men, or even from the self-fertilized egg of one person.
The law would serve as an amendment to the Dutch Embryo Act, which currently prohibits the creation of embryos just for use in experiments. Only excess embryos from in-vitro fertilization (IVF) may currently be used in research.
The bill opens the door to recognizing lab-created embryos while stipulating that the existing developmental limit on embryos used for research would still apply. Embryos may not be developed outside the body in the country for more than 14 days.
Dutch Parliamentarian Gideon van Meijeren decried during a recent session the bill’s proposed changes to the legal definition of an embryo as disgusting.
“In the new definition, alongside the classic embryo, that was formed by the fusion of an egg cell produced in the female body and a sperm cell produced in the male body — in other words, the embryo that we once all were — in addition, a number of other entities are now also explicitly brought under that definition,” van Meijeren said.
This includes experimental embryos created by nuclear transplantation, which was used to clone the sheep Dolly; and embryos created from body cells such as skin cells that are reprogrammed into a sperm or egg cell in a petri dish, van Meijeren explained.
He pointed out that this technique allows for the creation of an embryo from two people of the same sex, or from one person or even a human-animal hybrid.
“Chairman, if that doesn’t evoke disgust, what does?” van Meijeren said.
While such embryos are not yet considered clinically viable in human beings, mice embryos have been created from two fathers using highly engineered genetic manipulation. The new Dutch legislation would nevertheless hypothetically allow for the creation of such human embryos.
Koenraadt ended his recent appeal by reciting a litany of the radically anti-Christian, anti-family, anti-life legislation for which the Netherlands is distinguished.
“I can’t do this anymore,” he said. “I wasn’t born to grow up in this Sodom and Gomorrah of the world.”
