Babies made using three people's DNA are born free of hereditary disease

bbc ^ | 07/17/2025 | James Gallagher

[Veto!]

Worst idea I ever heard. Defying nature never works out.

[T.B. Yoits]

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?

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.

[T.B. Yoits]

...but the amount from the donor is 0.1 percent...

So they claim but we've heard their claims before.

[exinnj]

This is not going to end well.

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Someone with kinky hair, rice eyes, and freckles.

[T.B. Yoits]

Things have ‘gone wrong’ with blood transfusions and organ transplants, but few needing one have seemed to object to either.

That's a false comparison.

A blood transfusion or an organ transplant are given to a person whose DNA has already been established.

[Jamestown1630]

This is not an experiment on a ‘kid’. The kid doesn’t exist until the end of the process, and it has already given children a chance at a healthy life.

And sometimes people might not know for sure if their child will or will not be born with a genetic disease. They only know there’s a chance.

In the future, genetic engineering is predicted to treat cancer, cystic fibrosis, multiple dystrophy and a host of other diseases. It will be a long time before we can truly know the long term effects if any; but I doubt many people suffering from those will refuse treatment for themselves or their children.

[omega4412]

Honor thy father and thy mother, thy sperm donor and thy egg donor and thy mDNA donor, and thy surrogate mother

[T.B. Yoits]

And sometimes people might not know for sure if their child will or will not be born with a genetic disease. They only know there’s a chance.

Know for sure?

If they're going in and modifying DNA, they're betting the child would have been born with a genetic disease.

If you're betting against your own DNA, or your spouse's DNA, don't have kids and gamble with their life nor their offspring's either.

[If You Want It Fixed - Fix It]

And they don’t sin! We sinned in the crration already!

We beat God!

[Jamestown1630]

How can you be sure you won’t have children? Every ‘method’ except total abstinence has had its failures.

[T.B. Yoits]

In the future, genetic engineering is predicted to treat cancer, cystic fibrosis, multiple dystrophy and a host of other diseases.

Predicted.

I still don't have my jet pack.

[teeman8r]

that’s riceist!

[Jamestown1630]

Well, in utero genetic therapy has already been done and successfully in some cases. But I guess your concept that DNA is sacrosanct would reject that too, even if it saves a child from suffering...

[TexasGator]

“Every ‘method’ except total abstinence has had its failures.”

Mary would not call hers a failure.

[Jamestown1630]

I don’t think that requires a response, given the context of the thread.

[Uncle Miltie]

Yup. G-d made us this way. Don’t try another.

[scrabblehack]

Are they able to target the mitochondrial DNA that precisely?

[Bobalu]

[vpintheak]

Yep.