eugenic - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz Catholic News New Zealand Mon, 01 Jul 2013 04:25:55 +0000 en-NZ hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.7.1 https://cathnews.co.nz/wp-content/uploads/2020/05/cropped-cathnewsfavicon-32x32.jpg eugenic - CathNews New Zealand https://cathnews.co.nz 32 32 70145804 UK to create IVF babies with three people's DNA https://cathnews.co.nz/2013/07/02/uk-to-create-ivf-babies-with-three-peoples-dna/ Mon, 01 Jul 2013 19:01:11 +0000 http://cathnews.co.nz/?p=46355 The United Kingdom looks set to become the first country in the world to allow the creation of IVF babies using DNA from three people. The government said it would draft regulations to allow human embryos to be created in this way to avoid mitochondrial diseases. But the director of Human Genetics Alert, called the Read more

UK to create IVF babies with three people's DNA... Read more]]> The United Kingdom looks set to become the first country in the world to allow the creation of IVF babies using DNA from three people.

The government said it would draft regulations to allow human embryos to be created in this way to avoid mitochondrial diseases.

But the director of Human Genetics Alert, called the method "unnecessary and unsafe" and said it would lead to "a eugenic designer baby market".

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