Wednesday, 4 February 2015

Mitochondria harvesting

Our MPs have voted 3-1 in favour of "three-parent babies", or "mitochondrial donation". This procedure is apparently supposed to eliminate mitochondrial disorders. So that's all right then...

This is manufacturing bespoke human beings. It is tampering with the creation of human life. So you have 3 parents, some third-siblings, maybe some two-third siblings. If you're lucky, you might have a full sibling. And you probably won't know who your third-siblings are. And the next generation will have five or six grandparents...

And it won't be long before parents will be forced to ensure their children have no genetic illnesses. And then, is it that hard to imagine that, eventually, anyone who hasn't been created by this process will have to pay more for insurance?

This is eugenics.

Oh, and the embryonic donors of the mitochondria? Seems they're destroyed once their mitochondria has been harvested.

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