There is justifiably much concern about the latest innovation in the “life sciences”, the biological sciences dealing with human life. The latest innovation announced last week is motherless babies.
It’s being envisaged that quite soon two men may be able to beget a child together without involving a female partner in the conception. The conceiving cells could come from the skin grafts of two males – the skin cells being genetically “tricked” into acting like sperm and egg fusion. Thus a new life is conceived without the biological input of the female egg. Once conceived the embryo would need to be implanted in a surrogate (or hired) woman’s womb for development.
