Britain slides further into the abyss

[DieHardBrownsFan]

http://insider.foxnews.com/2015/02/03/britain-votes-allow-3-parent-ivf-babies

[Westside Steve]

So you would not do it within your own family if there were a risk of that particular disease?

I don't have kids but if I wanted some and I can eliminate the risk of some horrid disease or physical deformity I wouldn't hesitate to use scientific methods to do so. If, in fact, I'm reading that correctly.

WSS

[DieHardBrownsFan]

Absolutely not. Using DNA from three different people?

[WalterWhite]

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[tiamat63]

@diehardbrownsfan said:

Absolutely not. Using DNA from three different people?

To eliminate a hereditary disease is brilliant science at work.

Whats the issue here?

[MLD Woody]

The issue is science is strange and scary. Can we really trust these "experts"?

I think that's awesome.

[gftChris]

The issue here is that some might see it as a step towards 'designer babies' - where you can choose hair colour eye colour etc. While I'm not convinced that's a bad thing, I can see why people would be reluctant for it to become commonplace. However, that viewpoint does betray a lack of understanding of the actual science here -there's nothing in the mitochondrial DNA that can be used to determine anything like that, mitochondrial DNA is used only to determine how energy is dealt with, along with cell reproduction/destruction. None of the mitochondrial DNA is used in determining aesthetic characteristics of the baby.

Outside of that, I'm not sure what objection people might have?

[Westside Steve]

We actually have no federal law prohibiting partial birth abortion for the purpose of hair color selection.

That seems more barbaric than DNA tinkering.

WSS

[LogicIsForSquares]

Not seeing the problem.