Three-Parent Baby. Yay or Nay?

[AgnosticBoy]

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 would've been for the article because it may be of interest to those in non-monogamous relationships/marriages but the article title seems misleading. I tried to see how it was biologically possible to combine the dna from 3 different people's sex cells into ONE fertilized egg when fertilization occurs with sex cells from only two people. It seems that only certian cellular components are used from the third party but the article mentions that the fertilization still results in genetic material from only two parents. So apparently, the end result of this are babies who still develop or have genetic expression (eye color, etc) from the DNA of two parents.

 

[s2a]

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'm not opposed to "it", if that helps any.

Within your lifetime, it will become ordinary. Everyday. Routine.

So?

 

[AgnosticBoy]

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.

On another note, I think this procedure is unnecessary if its goal is to prevent certain diseases and conditions. You don't have to introduce a third person's DNA when you can copy one of the two parent's genetic material and alter or manipulate it for a desired outcome - i.e. 'genetic engineering'. When or if these scientists succeed in creating a condition to where a baby has the genotype and characteristics from 3 people, then I'll start to become interested.

 

[LuisDantas]

Yay all the way.