The announcement that Britain is to become the first country in the world to legalize In vitro fertilization (IVF) from three donors (instead of the more usual two) is final evidence—if any more was needed—that human genetic engineering is a reality and that the science of eugenics has now been validated beyond question.
Previously, a couple wishing to conceive by IVF would undergo a process whereby a human egg was fertilized by sperm outside the body and then reinserted into the female body for incubation.
This technique meant, of course, that whatever genetic heritage the two donor parents had, was passed on directly to the child.
The procedure now approved by the British government involves transferring the nuclear material of an affected mother’s egg cell into the donor egg of an unaffected woman, whose healthy mitochondria DNA will then be passed on to the IVF baby.
This means that the baby will inherit DNA from three biological “parents” —the mother, the father and the donor woman.
This will “cut off” what is known in the medical/scientific world as “mitochondrial disease”—genetic defects passed down through the maternal line.
These defects include conditions such as:
– Diabetes mellitus and deafness (DAD); Leber’s hereditary optic neuropathy (LHON) which causes visual loss beginning in young adulthood; multiple sclerosis; certain forms of dementia; progressive myoclonic epilepsy; heart disease; liver disease; loss of muscle coordination and other serious conditions like muscular dystrophy.
The three-donor procedure will mean that all subsequent generations of children born to girls resulting from the procedure would also carry the mitochondrial changes—and the defects will effectively have been eugenicized out of existence in that particular family.
This is a development which any normal rational person would welcome—except of course, for the extremist left who—quite rightly—recognize it for what it is: an endorsement of the science of eugenics.
The Jewish head of the UK pressure group Human Genetics Alert, David King, said the procedure will “raise the prospect of designer babies.”
According to King, “these techniques go far beyond anything existing in both invasiveness to the embryo and complexity.”
In one sense, King is correct: the technology is now at a point where humans will be able to change their physical, cognitive, and emotional capacities by modifying genes prior to, or at conception. This can be used to not only eliminate disease, but also other DNA strands which are unwanted—and not all of them might be purely medical in nature.
The science of eugenics—a word first coined by Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin—in the late 1800s—is the idea that human hereditary traits can be improved through the promotion of higher reproduction of more desired people and traits, and reduced reproduction of less desired people and traits.
Galton defined eugenics as “the study of all agencies under human control which can improve or impair the racial quality of future generations.”
* The UK legislation to allow the use of mitochondrial replacement could be passed by Parliament at the end of next year with the first IVF babies resulting from the technique being born within two years.
Br. Darby
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This is great news. This action, I hope is the first in many, to embrace biological reproductive science.
Infertility and medical disabilities wreck relationships and self esteem.
I actually spoke on air at LBC 97.3 radio yesterday, in regards to this, and ‘Dr’ King spoke on air before me. I believe he isnt a medical doctor, just received a PHD. He isn’t opposed to this on grounds of religion, but purely opposed to the idea of ‘designer babies’, and ‘people’s obsession with being genetically related to their child’. He said people should adopt or use donor eggs/sperm.
I feel stupid that I didn’t put two and two together, and realise he is Jewish. How can this man, and his pathetic organisation claim people should just adopt or use donor material?
Our sole purpose on this earth is to reproduce, to pass on our genetic line. Also, what is wrong with the prospect of designer babies? Surely, creating offspring with zero genetic defaults, would strengthen our gene pool and reverse the process of dysgenics.
Thankfully, I believe the likes of this Kazar convert and his tiny organisation will be ignored.
Walter Greenway
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This is not a simple matter of left or right or scoring points And there are more qualified folk than me to write about the technicalities of it all.
Playing on peoples emotions as many charities do is what is going on here and in some respects is just what the left/liberals do.
However it is an important matter so I will provide one link for reading although I must say that I only speed read through it myself.
https://www.commondreams.org/views02/0209-01.htm
Franks
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This science is absolutely fascinating and I hope more breakthroughs are imminent
frederickdixon
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I wonder if one day it will be possible, through genetic engineering, to artificially telescope the evolution of a new human species from hundreds of thousands of years to a single generation? I know that that would require changes to the DNA itself and that this new development does not go so far, but even so this new advance would itself have seemed impossible only a few years ago, so who knows what the next thirty or forty years may bring. There will be objections, of course, from religious obscurantists and other usual suspects, but it will happen provided – and this is a big “if” – western societies retain the intellect, the means and the will to do it for long enough.
Robert Wakely
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The medical implications are wonderful, but exercise caution. What can be used FOR you, may also be used AGAINST you. The invention of the Pill in the 1960’s was thought to be a boon to mothers with too many children, but is one factor in our White race being outbred. In the end, it may be the actual undoing of us. One would have thought logically that the incidence of abortion would have dropped to near zero, that’s what I thought then, but it just did not work like that. Human behaviour is not logical. There is always a down side. I am not an obscurantist, but think of all possible outcomes before supporting this.