The Department of Health has issued new draft regulations setting out proposals to permit the use of a controversial IVF technique that will result in the creation of children with three parents.
Currently, the technique - known as “mitochondria replacement therapy” - can only be used for research purposes, and involves transferring both parents’ DNA into a donor egg.
If adopted, the proposals will make Britain the first country in the world to create children with three, instead of two genetic parents.
Earlier this week, the US Food and Drug Administration expressed concerns that the technique could result in gene manipulation, and that there was not enough preclinical data on how the procedure could be performed safely.
In his blog, Dr Peter Saunders of the Christian Medical Fellowship has provided a helpful analysis of why the proposed technique is unnecessary, unethical and unsafe. You can read the full post here >