Genetic Babies Research Paper

Think of having a world where we are all have genes from “three parents”. When a woman or mother has mitochondrial disease scientist take a healthy nucleus from the mother’s egg that has damaged mitochondria in it and place it in an egg from a healthy donor. That egg, which is now carrying genetic material of two women, is fertilized by the male sperm and implanted into the mother (Nazir). This scientific research is called “Three Parent Genetic Babies”. Britain has become the first country in the world to allow babies to be created by the DNA of the three parents (CBS). Since then this has been a hot topic around the world this past year. Controversy over this topic has been blowing through the roof like crazy. In this paper I want to discuss …show more content…
The Genetic Literacy Project states that the changes made to the egg will be passed to female progeny, to female progeny, and so on. They believe this is “crossing the germline”, where sperm and eggs are ‘germ’ cells. In the end when this has begun to progress excessively, some people worry that it will be easier to do it for less ethically clear reasons than for women who couldn’t conceive otherwise (Knight). Critics say that mitochondrial donation is a step too far and crosses an ethical boundary. It could mark the start for unnatural reasons. This could lead to the creation of “designer babies” whose genes are tweaked to give the desirable characteristics for one (“Pros). Scientist and churches have pointed out that we don’t for sure know the risks involved with this kind of interference in the germline. The technology that is involved with the process has not yet been known for how successful it is in therapeutic cloning or in the creation of ‘cybirds’ (Nazir). For most people a problem they have with three parent genetic babies is the fact that it is from “thee parents”. There is an adverse reaction against restructuring concepts of family