Three-Parent Children

EDM number 858 in 2013-14, proposed by Fiona Bruce on 05/12/2013.
Categorised under the topics of Children and families, Medical ethics and Genetics.

That this House expresses the gravest concerns about proposals to authorise the creation of three-parent children effectively opening the door to the creation of designer babies; notes that Britain would be the first country in the world to do so; and strongly urges the Department of Health to focus primarily on the interests of any children to be born through such a procedure and to ensure that full information regarding such proposals, including the results of tests conducted to establish the likely safety of such procedures, are made known to Parliament and the general public alike for thorough scrutiny and debate before the laying of any relevant regulations.

This motion has been signed by a total of 19 MPs.