Interfaith post-England mulls legalization of in vitro technique giving baby DNA of three parents

[hrmjustin]

Trevor Grundy

CANTERBURY, England (RNS) Members of Parliament voted Tuesday (Feb. 3) to allow the creation of human embryos from the DNA of three people to try to eradicate a type of genetic disease that has caused the deaths of thousands of babies.

If the measure also passes Britain’s upper chamber, the House of Lords, England would become the first country to legalize the procedure.
http://www.religionnews.com/2015/02/03/england-mulls-legalization-vitro-technique-giving-baby-dna-three-parents/

[arcane1]

1. At first I thought they meant splicing DNA from 3 people into one nucleus.

But this doesn't bother me at all. Maybe, 100 generations from now, some geologist will get inaccurate data if they're tracing mitochondria, but that's not too terrible since it would still be coming from someone nearby.

I always thought of mitochondria as separate organisms anyway.

[rug]

2. GMO babies.

I'm staying out of GD.