BIOETHICISTS ADDRESS ‘THREE-PARENT’ CHILD
Catholic ethicists greeted the news that the first U.K. baby has been born after being conceived via a “three-parent” embryo modification technique with caution and strong criticism.
“This is the destruction of two embryonic human individuals to create a third individual,” the Anscombe Bioethics Centre said May 10.
“This is primarily unethical due to the destruction of two unique innocent human beings, who had inherent dignity and rights.”
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FIRST BABY WITH ‘THREE PARENTS’ BORN
The first British baby with DNA from three parents was born after doctors performed a revolutionary IVF procedure which results in a child with two genetic mothers and one father.
The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales have spoken against such procedures, in part because of the usual destruction of human embryos that accompanies them.
“The human embryo is a new human life, and it should be respected and protected from the moment of conception,” the bishops stated in 2015.