Parliament approves, but restricts, controversial biotic treatment
February 15th, 2011
After more than a week of hearings and heated debate on the future of the Grissom Protocol, a treatment that allows biotics to safely have biotic children, members of the Alliance Parliament approved a compromise law in a late-night session that would approve the treatment with restrictions addressing the ethical and moral concerns raised by the treatment’s opponents. The treatment will only be available to women who are already biotic, and who are capable of consenting to the six-month treatment schedule, and only doctors specially licensed by the Alliance will be allowed to prescribe it. Non-biotics will not be allowed to undergo the treatment, under threat of stiff criminal penalties for both patient and doctor. Biotics were pleased with the new law, but some saw evidence in the hearings of anti-biotic discrimination and public fear. Samir Al-Bihani, president of the Alliance Association for the Advancement of Biotic Peoples, said “we’re still thought of as abnormal, as freaks, as people with undesirable traits who need permission slips from the state to procreate. This law is legal progress, but not moral progress. No one is more concerned about abusing this treatment as we are. Many of us know what it’s like to be abused and experimented on. That’s why it’s so important for biotic children to be born into loving families with parents who understand their childrens’ unique powers and potential.”
[via Ars Biotica]
Tags: AAABP, Alliance Association for the Advancement of Biotic Peoples, Ars Biotica, Grissom Protocol, Samir Al-Bihani, Systems Alliance
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