Grave new world.
One researcher says the kids have high iq’s
So Barry’s “marriage equality” for bisexuals becomes a reality - 3 parents! Oh wait, it is evidence of polygamy?
Okay, where did they put the OnStar button?
it's no picnic being a Catholic these days, thanks to "Catholics."
Dr. Ian Malcolm from "Jurassic Park".
The lack of ethics here leaves me at a loss for words.
well i’d call them frankenkids but it’s not their fault.
natural processes can and do insert stuff into the gonadal DNA, what they’re calling the germline. for example, viruses can do this. but it’s the first humanly purposed such insertion. pandora’s box has flipped wide open.
Philosophical / theological points to ponder:
If they can do this (and it seems that they did), if non-human genes are spliced to create viable embryos, would these human / non-human hybrids have souls?
We already know insulin is produced by bacteria which have human genes spliced into them...
Man, am I loving the future.
gays and lesbians will eat this up.
Reading this news, after everything else has happened today....I do believe I’ve lived too long...May God help us!!
Is there a people shortage I don’t know about? Those who make people should be made to sit in some of our lovely traffic jams.
Did they name one of them Flinx?
I would have thought this type of human experimentation is already illegal. If not, we need to pass a law. Humans are not tinker toys to be played with by jerks in lab coats.
So, apparently, they have mitochondria from one woman and the nuclear DNA from another woman. The children are not genetically modified.
I really don’t have a problem with that.
I have a problem with going to great lengths to get women to conceive. If a couple can’t conceive naturally, that means there is something wrong... by enabling them to bear children anyway, that means there is a good chance of passing that defect along, when it would naturally be eliminated. I don’t think it will take many generations for medical intervention to be necessary for a significant proportion of the population to reproduce... is that really a desirable outcome?
> “the babies have been tested and have been found to contain genes from three ‘parents’.”
Half man, half bear, and half pig.
Genetic fingerprint tests on two one-year- old children confirm that they have inherited DNA from three adults --two women and one man.
The fact that the children have inherited the extra genes and incorporated them into their 'germline' means that they will, in turn, be able to pass them on to their own offspring.
Altering the human germline - in effect tinkering with the very make-up of our species - is a technique shunned by the vast majority of the world's scientists.
Geneticists fear that one day this method could be used to create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence.
Very disturbing. This is completely altering God's plan and natural design of the human race. This is the problem with IVF. First they start creating human beings in labs, and they dispose of "extra" or "imperfect" created human beings. They then design human beings with ideal characteristics with people picking sperm and egg donors and scientists selecting the "best" embryos of the created bunch. At some point, I'm sure they'll be able to determine which embryos have certain mental and physical charateristics. Now they've gotten to the point where they are creating human beings with three parents. The homosexual community will love this by the way because it enables them to have their own biological children. As you read, a further step is to "create new races of humans with extra, desired characteristics such as strength or high intelligence."
Writing in the journal Human Reproduction, the researchers, led by fertility pioneer Professor Jacques Cohen, say that this 'is the first case of human germline genetic modification resulting in normal healthy children'.
How many times has this occured that hasn't resulted in "normal healthy children?"
Some experts severely criticised the experiments. Lord Winston, of the Hammersmith Hospital in West London, told the BBC yesterday: 'Regarding the treat-ment of the infertile, there is no evidence that this technique is worth doing . . . I am very surprised that it was even carried out at this stage. It would certainly not be allowed in Britain.'
You know it's bad when this is not permitted in liberal Britain. The United States is going to have to answer to God for this disrespect of human life. We have the most liberal abortion laws in the world, allow sex selective IVF and abortion, and now are creating children with THREE parents. The slope just keeps on sliding. Never underestimate the depths to which they will sink.