Three-parent babies isn’t progress. If you play God you’ll create hell on earth

It seems such a wonderful advance. And Britain is leading the way! Today the UK’s fertility regulator, The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) gave the green light for clinics to apply for licences to create babies made from the DNA of three people.

Doctors in Newcastle are heading the rush to see the first three-parent baby at the end of 2017. One in 10,000 women are in danger of passing on serious genetic disease to their children. The technique that has just been licensed called mitochondrial replacement therapy (MRT) is meant to prevent this happening and will hopefully result in these women having babies free from disease. Is this not obviously good news? Isn’t any opposition somewhat Luddite, or basically the result of religious people again holding back progress?

Not according to many scientists. There are those who argue that MRT carries significant risks. There have been studies that have shown it is possible for small amounts of mutated DNA, carried over from the mother’s egg into the donors, to replicate and dominate the healthy mitochondria. This would actually mean the therapy would create the disease it was designed to cure.

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