Whenever I criticize the Wild West ethics of the in vitro fertilization industry, I hear from heartbroken people who tell me they would do \u201canything\u201d\u009d to have a baby. I sympathize with the heartache of childlessness. But the willingness of many to do\u201d\u201dand of the IVF industrial complex to sell\u201d\u201danything leads to a \u201cme first\u201d\u009d sense of reproductive entitlement.<\/p>\n
We already know that IVF is no longer limited to infertile married couples\u201d\u201dwith women in their sixties even using the technique to get pregnant. Now, the universal condition of having two biological parents is about to be shattered.<\/p>\n
The United Kindom\u2019s Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority has approved the use of \u201cthree-parent IVF\u201d\u009d by which eggs from two women are combined and fertilized, creating an embryo with two biological mothers and one father. The point (for now) is to allow parents with mitochondrial disease to have a biologically related child without passing on their condition.<\/p>\n