FDA opens debate on 3-parent babies

[loretta]

The debate over whether the technique — nicknamed "three-parent IVF" — should be allowed to proceed to human tests underscores how quickly the science of reproductive medicine is evolving. Scientists argue that this technology, like cloning and embryonic stem cell research, has huge potential to help people. But it is also highly sensitive, touching ethical and political nerves.
The technology involves taking defective mitochondria, the cell's powerhouses, from a mother's egg and replacing them with healthy mitochondria from another woman. After being fertilized by the father's sperm in a lab, the egg would be implanted in the mother, and the pregnancy could progress normally.

http://www.bendbulletin.com/home/1827174-151/fda-opens-debate-on-3-parent-babies

This is bound to cause a stir in Christendom and elsewhere.  But can we really play God?

[indianabob]

Just curious. Have to wonder what God will do with the individual if the pregnancy goes to full term and live birth.

I-Bob

[Kat]

Well man is given the ability to accomplish these things, only by the will of God. They are not creating life, just messing around with what is all ready there.

If a child should perchance and go to full term and be born, it is God that gives every living creature the breath of life.

Job 12:10  In His hand is the life of every living thing and the breath of all mankind.

mercy, peace and love
Kat

[lilitalienboi16]

This isn't really anything dramatic or cloning like. It merely is replacing diseased mitochondrial DNA with healthy DNA. All progeny receive their mitochondrial DNA from their mothers, at least as far as humans are concerned, no exceptions. In this case, certain diseases involved with that DNA are ALWAYS passed on from the mother to the children. This could be a way to eradicate those diseases.