The first "three-parent" child may be born next year
One child for three parents
Denis Kireev, "Euromag"
The UK may become the first country in the world to allow artificial insemination using DNA samples from three people. The relevant law was approved by the lower house of Parliament the day before. It is known that the first child, who will have two moms and one dad, may be born in the country next year.
Great Britain continues to adopt revolutionary laws "in working order". Earlier, the law on "marriage for all" was adopted relatively casually, and the right of women to hold the position of bishop in the Anglican Church was also approved.
On the eve of the lower house of the British Parliament approved a regulatory act that will allow artificial insemination using DNA samples from three people.
This means that a child conceived artificially can have two moms and one dad, BBC News reports.
Supporters of such an innovation say that such a solution will solve a huge number of problems, including, for example, a number of genetic diseases. In turn, opponents talk about the danger of abuse by parents who can engage in the "creation of babies" according to pre-selected criteria.
Nevertheless, 382 deputies of the House of Commons have already voted for the law, 128 deputies opposed it. In the next two weeks, the bill must be approved by members of the House of Lords.
If the law is approved, Britain will become the first country to introduce such a practice, which scientists and doctors hope for very much.
According to experts, women have the "biological potential" to bypass dangerous DNA mutations in the mitochondria of the cells of their children and subsequent generations. If the law allows the use of third-party DNA during fertilization, then along with the DNA of the father and mother, the fetus will also receive initially healthy mitochondria and DNA of another woman.
Only in the near future, this technology, according to doctors, could help give birth to healthy children to about 2,400 British women.
"It would be immoral not to take advantage of technology that would help prevent the occurrence (of children being born) of fatal diseases," Lord Robert Winston told reporters defending the bill.
Mitochondrial defects in the mother's cells lead to the birth of children with severe diseases: they may suffer from brain dysfunction, muscular dystrophy, heart defects and blindness. The new technology will remove these defects.
The procedure involves the use of germ cells of parents and mitochondria from a healthy woman. There are two possibilities of intervention: elimination of defects in the embryo and elimination of defects in the egg.
The resulting child will possess 0.1% of the DNA of another woman, while his own cells will no longer carry defective mitochondria.
The bill was opposed by the Catholic Church and the human rights organization Human Genetics Alert [...] (their arguments are omitted here for obvious reasons – VM).
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