Posted on 07/17/2025 11:19:19 AM PDT by BenLurkin
Still with the master race sh*t?
What could possibly go wrong?
Will the first male be named “Damien”?
Sounds like a very flimsy, and standard state-run-media propaganda, attempt to justify some truly dangerous globohomo social engineering.
Why we allow the BBC to spew their neo-marxist state-run nonsense, when we strictly limit state-run media of other nations, is beyond me.
What could possibly go wrong?
Are we still funding the BBC?
As long as they’re doing this they could include chloroplasts so the baby could make its own food. Just add water and sunlight.
What can go wrong WILL go wrong.
Babies made using three people's DNA...
I understand the trepidation, but I have to say that this is a very innovative way to let prospective parents who carry mitochondrial disease to have their own children, with their parental chromosomal genes, and just someone else’s mitochondrial DNA.
Mitochondrial proteins include those that are encoded by dna that is only found in the mitochondria, and proteins that are made by nuclear dna. This approach will only work for those mitochondrial diseases that are encoded by the relatively small amount of mitochondrial dna.
New!
On the surface of this, I can’t see an objection to it; but there will be people who think it’s ‘satanic’ or otherwise horrible.
“Hello, Sybil”.
Things have ‘gone wrong’ with blood transfusions and organ transplants, but few needing one have seemed to object to either.
The children would not be their own: 1 + 1 + 1 = 3 parents' DNA.
Who knows what the long term consequences would be?
Meet the throuple baby.
It’s not a third parent’s DNA; it’s a tiny bit from a nonfertilized egg. That’s a big difference from the introduction of a third person’s entire DNA profile.
If you knew your child might suffer from a horrible genetic disease that could be avoided by some form of genetic engineering, would you refuse it?
We never know the long term consequences of much at all. We didn’t know for sure about the polio vaccine; but being old enough to have known kids with polio, I’m damn glad my folks didn’t refuse it.
correction: the egg is fertilized in the process, but the amount from the donoe is 0.1 percent.
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