Three-Parent Baby. Yay or Nay?

[Phil25]

Three-parent baby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Three Parent Babies are babies who have genetic material from three different people. Do you support it or oppose it. I oppose it.

 

[Gjallarhorn]

Sounds neat. I support it.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

What is there to oppose again?

 

[Gjallarhorn]

What is there to oppose again?

"Playing God" perhaps, though that was rendered irrelevant since the dawn of agriculture.

"Non-traditional families" perhaps, though with the rising number of single parents and in vitro pregnancies, it has also been made irrelevant.

Perhaps just the ick factor?

 

[CynthiaCypher]

Oh my god! A means to strengthen our immune system and fight deadly disease. Oh my god that certainly needs to be opposed.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

"Playing God" perhaps, though that was rendered irrelevant since the dawn of agriculture.

"Non-traditional families" perhaps, though with the rising number of single parents and in vitro pregnancies, it has also been made irrelevant.

Perhaps just the ick factor?

I am really sick of the traditional family anyways.

 

[columbus]

A parent is a person who is willing and able to provide a solid home for a child. Not just any "genetic donor", that is not a parent.

What the article is describing is a gene donor. Preventing genetic disorders is a good thing. But don't call them parents.

Tom

 

[Drolefille]

A parent is a person who is willing and able to provide a solid home for a child. Not just any "genetic donor", that is not a parent.

What the article is describing is a gene donor. Preventing genetic disorders is a good thing. But don't call them parents.

Tom

So answer the poll as a "3 genetic doner" baby instead.

 

[columbus]

So answer the poll as a "3 genetic doner" baby instead.

I don't see that option.

Even "3 genetic donors" gives me the creeps. Why not just take better care of the kids we already have?

Tom

 

[Drolefille]

I don't see that option.

Even "3 genetic donors" gives me the creeps. Why not just take better care of the kids we already have?

Tom

Why would that be creepier than any sort of IVF option?

(I meant treat it as if the poll said it that way, you're just disagreeing with the definition the article is using if that's your problem.)

 

[savagewind]

Interesting. My brain isn't big enough to think about that.

 

[Phil25]

It seems to me that some people think that everything New is better and everything traditional sucks.

 

[ChristineES]

Three-parent baby - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Three Parent Babies are babies who have genetic material from three different people. Do you support it or oppose it. I oppose it.

I neither support nor oppose it.

 

[Sees]

I wouldn't want to participate with my own physical or monetary resources but I also wouldn't stop others from doing it. Not sure if that is yay or nay

 

[Saint Frankenstein]

Don't know.

 

[Fireside_Hindu]

I'm not one way or the other really. The only thing I see is a legal minefield depending on where you live. It's already possible for sperm donors to be hunted down and forced to pay child support.

On the other hand I see the definite benefits in fighting disease. I suppose I'd need to know more about it to decide. I think there's no stopping progress, but it's a question of ethical uses. Given the options though, I'm in favor of scientific progress.

:camp:

 

[Fireside_Hindu]

I wouldn't want to participate with my own physical or monetary resources but I also wouldn't stop others from doing it. Not sure if that is yay or nay

This.

 

[CynthiaCypher]

everything traditional sucks.

It generally does.

 

[Bunyip]

Christmas and birthdays would be awesome - so yes.

 

[Revoltingest]

I voted "Yay" cuz "Nay" sounded like a horse whinnying.