Accepting that children can have three parents – NRK

It was a long and at times heated debate in the British House this afternoon, when elected debated whether they should say yes or no to so-called “children of three parents” . The purpose is to prevent hereditary diseases continued.

Hereditary neurological disease

It’s about what’s called mitochondrial diseases. The neurological disorders that inhibits energy development in the body. Using IVF technology, doctors can remove the defective cells with genetic material in more and combining the remaining genetic material with healthy mitochondria from a donormor.

Although there has been intensive research on the disease, there to now no curative treatment of mitochondrial diseases.

The technology they elected now opens, developed in Newcastle in northern England and will be able to prevent the inheritance of mitochondrial diseases from mother to daughter. There are a total of 0.1 percent of the DNA of the donor mother mixed with the DNA from the biological mother. The change is permanent, and will follow in hereditary ranks in further generations.

Controversial

The technology it will now be desired by many in the medical community, but also meets with skepticism . Because the technology is not allowed, there are no children who are born this way. Therefore, many clamoring more research before it is implemented.

Britain’s health director, Dame Sally Davies, says that there is enough research, and that technology is welcomed by families who are affected so now appropriate to initiate.

Church communities in England have been skeptical. Church of England says they can support technology under certain conditions, while the Catholic and Anglican Church says it is ethically wrong.

Both pressure groups and several elected officials say they fear that this will also open the door for so-called “designer babies”, that parents will come to change everything from eye color to sex, as much as to prevent hereditary genetic diseases.

Clearly plural

Although many of MPs expressed their clear skepticism to “tamper with creation”, it ended thus with a “yes.” 382 voted in favor, while the minority amounted 182.

The case will go to a new vote in the House of Lords. If the case also going through there, the first child with three genetic parents being born as early as next year.

Published 02.03.2015, kl. 18.29