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Transhuman Bio Trinity – three parents to make one baby

In transhumanism news:

Last week the British House of Commons voted to allow research on a scientific technique that, if successful, could lead to babies born with DNA from three adults. The decision has to be approved by the House of Lords. It should be, and the United States should follow suit.

Thus reported professor of psychiatry at Columbia University and the director of its Masters of Bioethics Program, Dr. Richard Klitzman in his article, “Three Parents, One Baby? Not at All – Replacing mitochondria in an unfertilized egg will save many infants’ lives, not rewrite biology,” The Wall Street Journal, February 9, 2015 AD (this is the date on the article but it seems that it should read “2016”).

The hot news pertains to “Mitochondrial Replacement Therapy” (MRT). Richard Klitzman notes that it pertains to genetic disorders which parents would not want to pass on to their children. Thus, MRT is meant to “replace a mother’s mutated mitochondria with healthy mitochondria.”

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It is noted that “The children would have more than 99.99% of their DNA from their two parents and an infinitesimal fraction—less than 0.01%—from the woman who provided the healthy mitochondria.”

Klitzman also polemicizes as follows, “MRT opponents…argue that the procedure constitutes genetic engineering, and that having “three parents” may upset the children who are born healthy as a result. These arguments are flawed. While news media portray MRT as producing children with three parents, the analogy and the way the controversy is framed are misleading. A more accurate analogy would be to organ transplantation.”

Of course, even if we reach a point at which children are “engineered” from DNA with three people providing 1/3 DNA each personages such as Robert Klitzman could still claim that “A more accurate analogy would be to organ transplantation.”

He also asserts, “MRT would not push us over a slippery slope: Altering the 99.99% of our genes that exist in the nucleus of our cells—as would be done to create so-called designer babies—is an entirely different matter.”

Well, MRT may not “push us over” a slippery slope but its critics have a point as a slight alteration is one step towards a greater alteration and on down the slope we slip.

Sadly, such issue are generally examples of Catch 22 since if you oppose it you will be told that you care not for children–think of the children!—and yet, as JP Morgan put it, “A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason.”

Let us also keep in mind that this news is proceeding forth from the very same UK about which it was reported in 2011 AD that 150 human animal hybrids grown in UK labs: Embryos have been produced secretively for the past three years.


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