Dad and two mothers or a child from three parents
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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US geneticists said that they are all ready to begin experiments on the creation of human embryos with DNA from three parents. The Sanctuary Control Commission has already given permission for such experiments. According to the doctors, three parents are needed to replace pathological mitochondria in the human embryo, because of which the woman gives birth to unhealthy offspring.
Scientists intend to use in the experiments of three donors - two women and men, who will become the parents of the unborn child. According to the researchers, this technique will help mankind to get rid of some genetic diseases.
The gene includes hereditary all information about a person and is located in chromosomes and mitochondria, while mitochondria are transmitted exclusively along the mother's line. It is for this reason that genetics intend to replace them only in male embryos, which will allow the subsequent generations to avoid the manifestation of the DNA of the third parent. The child of 0.1% of the genes will belong to the third parent, but despite this, he will be considered born of three people - two mothers and one father.
Last year similar experiments were approved by the House of Commons in the UK. According to scientists, this technique is necessary for women who have mitochondrial disease, as a result of which they can not give birth to a healthy baby.
The media reports that lesbians, homosexuals, bisexuals and transgender people have already shown interest in this work.
But to start experiments, one permission from the Sanctuary Control Commission is not enough. According to the Federal Law of the USA, studies of this nature are banned, and also against such experiments the commission on bioethics, which includes representatives of various religious faiths. By the way, such work is prohibited according to Islamic norms, the only exception is artificial insemination, when a woman can not get pregnant naturally due to her health condition, while a man and a woman should have a legal relationship for a long time.
Orthodox representatives are also against these experiments, in addition, surrogate motherhood is also prohibited by Orthodox Christians, as the woman's body, preparing for motherhood, undergoes enormous changes. During pregnancy, a woman begins to become attached to a new life inside her, begins to love the child who finds it in her belly, all these changes can not be measured even with the most modern medical instruments.
But in the United States in recent years, the sphere of motherhood and family planning has undergone a lot of changes and the attitude towards it has become more consumer, i.e. The birth of a child is assessed on the part of utility.
By the way, in the United States, the organization, which was engaged in the sale of organs of unborn children, acted quite legitimately, at the same time everything was financed from the federal budget. The activist David Daladein, who is being threatened with 20 years of imprisonment for excessive curiosity, has declassified the "black" work of the organization.
Some experts do not exclude that new genetic experiments with three parents are conducted for a slightly different purpose and may result in the creation of a new enterprise that generates a high income.
