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Pratim UK tisak u zadnje vrijeme. Jasno mi je da su naši zakoni vrlo konzervativni, ali kako spriječiti da dođe do ovog i je li po vama ovo doista napredak medicine?
"A scientist has been making her case to be the first in the UK to genetically modify human embryos before killing them and ensuring that they are unable to continue living and growing.
Dr. Kathy Niakan, a researcher at the Francis Crick Institute, has applied for permission from the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA), to engage in gene editing of human embryos. If her application goes through, Great Britain will become the only country - other than China - to genetically modify the human embryo, and the first such embryos could be created by the summer.
The research is apparently to discover some of the causes of infertility.
Such experiments are legal in the UK as long as the embryos are not implanted into a woman’s womb. This is a euphemistic way of saying that human life is being created for the sole purpose of experimentation. And then after being experimented upon it is destroyed.
These proposed experiments have been prompted by a recent scientific finding, Crispr gene editing, which allows scientists to turn off genes at the single-cell stage and see what happens. Scientists think that they might be able to determine the precise role of specific genes, removing or inactivating them if unhealthy."
In fact, David King of Human Genetics Alert has said that ‘This is the first step on a path that scientists have carefully mapped out towards legalisation of GM babies.’ And do we really want to live in a country where potentially eugenic practices are embraced just because we can?
Indeed, Professor David Jones of the Oxford-based Anscombe Bioethics Centre has commented on the dangers of this latest push towards the genetic modification of the human embryos. The proposal "has been accompanied by exaggerated promise to cure of prevent diseases, but the real result is simply more unethical experimentation on human beings at the earliest stages of their development." He went on to say that "Safe and effective somatic gene therapy should be the focus of our research, not more experimentation on human embryos which will be effective only in paving the way toward GM babies."
