Ami Jaeger from the BioLaw Ethics Institute was featured in a segment of HuffPost Live on September 27, 2012. Host Janet Varney spoke with Ms. Jaeger, as well as Marcy Darnovsky, Arland Nichols and Margaret Moon, about new IVF techniques being researched and evaluated in the United Kingdom.
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“Members of the public are being asked how they feel over the creation of IVF babies with three genetic parents.
What they say could pave the way to a landmark change in the law that would affect future generations.
The “uncharted territory” techniques are aimed at preventing a special category of diseases caused by inherited genes.
The technique uses DNA from three people to create a baby
They involve children being conceived with the help of a third genetic “parent”: a woman whose donated egg provides a source of replacement healthy DNA. A baby created this way would have a full compliment of nuclear DNA from its mother and father, plus a tiny amount of donated mitochondrial DNA.”
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