Of Cabbages and Kings, and Chimeric Creatures...

"The time has come the Walrus said, to think of other things, of shoes and ships and sealing wax, cabbages and kings..." Alice in Wonderland You might think you have fallen down a rabbit hole into an alternate universe when you hear about things like "interspecific chimeric brains", but we have written about this before. The issue of evolving notions of personhood is one that will continue to persist and cause much debate and discussion and, at the risk of repeating myself, if we, in the United States, are not willing to ban chimeric entities in a manner similar to Canada, we should be looking to preserve and expand human rights and human dignity despite that fact our ‘humanness’ and human nature is changing. - Linda Glenn