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How Three People Can Make a Baby
Starting next year, children in the U.K. may be born with the DNA of three different people, after a Parliamentary vote earlier today approved a controversial fertility procedure. The lower chamber of British Parliament, the House of Commons, voted 382-128 today to pass a bill authorizing an in-vitro fertilization technique that would combine two parents’ genetic material with that of a third female donor. The upper chamber, the House of Lords, is expected to take up the...
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It is truly a distortion and biased view to say this would be a three person baby. I don't recall seeing any similar criticism of Blood Transfusions, Organ or other tissue donations on these grounds. Mitochondrial DNA would be such a small fraction of the child's complement of DNA, but would end some horrendous genetic outcomes. Some sense from our politicians for once!
After reading further,I have no problem with this.