Playing God or Saving Lives? Making Babies With Three Parents

This week the United Kingdom’s House of Commons approved a new fertility treatment that would incorporate DNA from three sources: a mother, a father and an egg donor.  The treatment would be used in cases where children had a substantial chance of inheriting genetic diseases. But the treatment is controversial and raises issues of science and ethics.   “Is the fear of our capacity to exercise remarkable power to save life and to make life going to get in the way of our doing this very sacred thing?” asks Rabbi Brad Hirschfield, president of Clal and co-founder and executive editor of TheWisdomDaily.com.

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