The creation of babies made from two women and one man has been approved by the UK's fertility regulator, prompting condemnation from pro-life campaign groups.
The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority announced its endorsement of the new procedure yesterday. It is supposed to prevent babies being born with genetic disorders such as mitochondrial diseases.
The genetic diseases are inherited from the mother only, so the new technique uses a donor egg as well as the mother's egg and father's sperm in order to ensure the disease is not passed on to the baby.
