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.
If I had some horrible genetic disease that I could pass onto my children, I wouldn't have children. Period.
To think that this will "solve" a problem is ego. It could create a much worse situation.
To argue kids should be experimented on because of polio vaccines in the past is a twisted leap in logic. At that rate, why not bring back human sacrifice and bloodletting? AND, it was Simian DNA in some of those vaccines that screwed up recipients. That DNA was found in tumors decades after the children had gotten those vaccines.
Children are not meant to be experiments, regardless of what Godless scientists proclaim.
This "Save the Children" propaganda is how they sell bio-engineering.
As opposed to this, I would rather adopt at that point.
I am not so concerned about leaving a DNA trace of my existence as others seem to be.