Baby Born With Three Parents
Breakpoint
Colson Center
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🗓️ 13 June 2023
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Summary
According to the BBC, for the first time in the U.K., a baby has been born with DNA from not only mom and dad, but also another woman. About 0.1% of the baby's DNA came from the third party, through a mitochondrial donation. The idea of the procedure is to produce a baby without any of the diseases that result from unhealthy mitochondria inherited from the parents.
Though hailed as "the only option for (parents with defective mitochondria) to have a healthy child of their own," it's not certain the procedure will work, nor whether a child born from the process will develop problems later in life. More troubling is that children are treated as a product that is owed to anyone who wants them, through an experiment conducted without a child's knowledge or consent.
And, no matter how noble the motives are, once this method enters medical toolkits, it will be used in other ways just like other medical procedures have been. As "throuples" and other relationships are increasingly recognized legally, this technology will be applied for different purposes, sooner not later.
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| 0:00.0 | With a woman to look at culture from a Christian worldview, I'm John Stone Shree with a point. |
| 0:04.7 | According to the BBC, for the first time in the UK, a baby's been born with DNA not only |
| 0:09.0 | from the mom and dad, but another woman. |
| 0:11.2 | About 0.1% of the baby's DNA came from the third party through a mitochondrial donation, |
| 0:16.0 | the idea is to produce a baby, without the diseases that result from unhealthy mitochondria |
| 0:21.1 | inherited from the parents. |
| 0:22.5 | Though hailed is the only option for these parents to have a healthy child of their own, |
| 0:26.1 | it's not certain the procedure will work, or whether or not a child born from the process |
| 0:29.8 | will develop problems later in life. |
| 0:31.7 | Not to mention, children here are treated as a product that are owed to anyone who wants |
| 0:35.9 | them through an experiment that's conducted on the child without their knowledge consent. |
| 0:40.3 | And no matter how noble the motive is, once this method enters the toolkit, it will be |
| 0:44.9 | used in other ways, especially for example as thruples and other relationships are increasingly |
| 0:50.3 | recognized legally, this technology will be applied for different purposes, sooner, |
| 0:55.3 | not later. |
| 0:56.3 | For the Colson Center, I'm John Stone Shree. |
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