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RE: Churches oppose three-person baby plan
February 3, 2015 at 2:12 pm
MPs have voted in favour of the creation of babies with DNA from two women and one man, in an historic move.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-31069173
I misread the headline... I thought it was sex with 2 women and 1 man
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RE: Churches oppose three-person baby plan
February 3, 2015 at 2:14 pm
Three-person babies? You mean you have to share the baby with two other people?
Well someone's going to be hungry.
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RE: Churches oppose three-person baby plan
February 3, 2015 at 2:22 pm
GM babies taste like chicken!
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RE: Churches oppose three-person baby plan
February 3, 2015 at 2:30 pm
Everybody must be hungry, thinking of all those GM-modified babies. Oooh, still a couple hours till lunch. Grrrr.
I suppose GM could be used to derive various traits - juicy, tenderness, proportion of white/dark meat, etc.
If so, I'm all for it!
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RE: Churches oppose three-person baby plan
February 3, 2015 at 2:30 pm
Mitochondrial DNA from someone other than the egg or sperm donor isn't going to have near the variability (or effect) on the off springs behavior or appearance that the human DNA will.
Mitochondria don't engage in sex, they fission. Much slower process than the wholesale gene shuffle from good old fashioned man on top hurry up and get it over with type fornication.
Mitochondria is passed maternally (in the 'old' way) BTW, so finding another descendent of a shared ancestor to donate would get you a virtually identical (hopefully minus the deleterious mutation) mitochondria if someone was super worried about gestating a monster of some kind. I'm not sure just any old mitochondria would work (ape, cow, fish, bug ?) but that kind experiment might be a little more plausible for the churchites to have a problem with.
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RE: Churches oppose three-person baby plan
February 3, 2015 at 2:50 pm
Smaller than a grain of mustard seed they are.
So according to scripture, I suppose they don't exist.
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