Spare-part babies

August 2, 2007

A growing trend:

At the moment parents are usually only allowed to create such babies, also known as “saviour siblings” to save the life of another child.

But a joint committee of MPs and Lords is expected to argue that the technique should help conditions that are not immediately life-threatening such as sickle-cell anaemia.



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1 Anonymous August 2, 2007 at 9:16 pm

Abomination. Time for western civ to go under. Can God not turn his back on us and still be God?

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