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February 3, 2015

England mulls legalization of in vitro technique giving baby DNA of three parents

Verona Blumenauer, director of the Kinderwunschzentrum Leipzig Laboratory in Germany, inspects the microinjection of sperm into an egg cell using a microscope in this July 2011 photo at the in vitro fertilization clinic. Bioethicists and pro-life leader s criticized a new "benefit" Facebook and Apple have offered to female employees -- paying for them to freeze their eggs and delay having children. The Pope Paul VI Institute in Omaha, Neb., also reported that more effective options exist for infertile couples than in vitro fertilization.

CANTERBURY, England - Members of Parliament voted Tuesday (Feb. 3) to allow the creation of human embryos from the DNA of three people to try to eradicate a type of genetic disease that has caused the deaths of thousands of babies.

Published in International