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UK celebrates 1st Baby born with DNA from 3 parents in new IVF procedure

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UK celebrates 1st Baby born with DNA from 3 parents in new IVF procedure

CNA reported on the first baby born in the United Kingdom with DNA from three parents.

The child was born after doctors performed a revolutionary IVF procedure designed to prevent rare but dangerous mitochondrial diseases:

The news that “less than five” children have been born in the U.K. through this process as of late April was first reported by The Guardian. This is the first time the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has confirmed any children in the country being born through this process. The HFEA avoided disclosing the exact number of babies to protect privacy. 

The Parliament of the United Kingdom has approved two methods for altering the DNA of an embryo by including genetic material from a third person. The procedure is only permitted for couples who have a strong likelihood of passing down a dangerous mitochondrial disorder. The two techniques are maternal spindle transfer (MST) and pronuclear transfer (PNT).

Both methods create a child who has two genetic mothers and one genetic father. The PNT method also requires the destruction of embryos. The MST process does not necessarily require the destruction of embryos, but researchers did destroy embryos as part of the researching process. 

Through MST, nuclear genetic material is removed from the mother’s eggs and transferred to donated eggs that have had their nuclear genetic material removed before being fertilized with the father’s sperm. Through PNT, the mother’s eggs are first fertilized with the father’s sperm in a lab and then the nuclear genetic material is transferred to donated eggs that have had their nuclear genetic material removed. 

When Parliament was considering the initial research in 2015, it faced opposition from the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales, which accused Parliament of approving the methods too hastily and objected to the destruction of human embryos in the treatment process. 

“There are also serious ethical objections to this procedure which involves the destruction of human embryos as part of the process,” a statement read at the time. “The human embryo is a new human life, and it should be respected and protected from the moment of conception.”

Bishop Strickland of Tyler, Texas, tweeted that this is “a Godless and evil crime against humanity.”

PNT tweet Strickland

Is the medical establishment simply running away with their revolutionary innovation and technology, or is this, perhaps, more of a sinister attempt to play “god”? In either case, who do you think is more pleased with such procedures: God, or His Ape?

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