continued: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-31063500Senior church figures have called on the UK government to block the creation of babies from three people.
The Church of England and the Catholic Church in England and Wales said it was not clear the technique - adding a donor woman's mitochondria to another woman's egg - was safe or ethical.
But a group of scientists has urged MPs to approve the procedure - intended to stop deadly mitochondrial diseases.
Ministers want to allow the technique and MPs will debate it on Tuesday.
Mitochondria are tiny compartments found within cells within the body, and their most crucial role is to convert energy locked in food into energy the cell can use.
About one in every 6,500 babies is born with mitochondrial disease, which can be fatal.
Mitochondria are passed to a child from the mother, and the proposed technique involves adding healthy mitochondria from a donor woman to an egg from another, then fertilising it with one man's sperm.
The Reverend Brendan McCarthy, Church of England adviser on medical ethics, said: "We need to be absolutely clear that the techniques that will be used will be safe, and we need to be absolutely sure that they will work."
He also said the ethics of the issue should be properly discussed before a decision was made, adding: "What's the rush?"
Senior church figures have called on the UK government to block the creation of babies from three people.
The Church of England and the Catholic Church in England and Wales said it was not clear the technique - adding a donor woman's mitochondria to another woman's egg - was safe or ethical.
But a group of scientists has urged MPs to approve the procedure - intended to stop deadly mitochondrial diseases.
Ministers want to allow the technique and MPs will debate it on Tuesday.
Mitochondria are tiny compartments found within cells within the body, and their most crucial role is to convert energy locked in food into energy the cell can use.
About one in every 6,500 babies is born with mitochondrial disease, which can be fatal.
Mitochondria are passed to a child from the mother, and the proposed technique involves adding healthy mitochondria from a donor woman to an egg from another, then fertilising it with one man's sperm.
The Reverend Brendan McCarthy, Church of England adviser on medical ethics, said: "We need to be absolutely clear that the techniques that will be used will be safe, and we need to be absolutely sure that they will work."
He also said the ethics of the issue should be properly discussed before a decision was made, adding: "What's the rush?"
'Not playing God'
Sharon Bernardi, who lost all of her seven children to mitochondrial disease, said the proposed technique was not about changing the colour of a child's eyes or hair.
"This is trying to make children survive," she said.
"We're not playing God or anything."
She said her first baby died within 28 hours of birth, and she lost five other children while they were babies - and her son Edward at the age of 21.
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So the church's objection is that they "need to know it's safe"? So why don't they just shut the fuck up and let the doctors and scientists that know what they are talking about in that regard establish the safety of the procedure?
They don't even have the guts to say that they object because "it's against the WILL OF GOD" anymore! Cowardly, weasly dickheads!
They don't even have the guts to say that they object because "it's against the WILL OF GOD" anymore! Cowardly, weasly dickheads!

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Actually, they are saying that as well, if a discussion on Newsnight just now is anything to go by. Destruction of embryos,, etc.
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Actually, I think I can see what they REALLY don't like about it.
It's another nail in the coffin for god, if it goes ahead and is a successful procedure.
First they told us that god ''blesses'' us with children. Then we find out it's a recombination of genes that make a baby. Now it will be a recombination, with a bit from elsewhere.
At what point does god nip in, and attach a soul to what we have mixed up?
It will harden the understanding of the public, that a human is a mix of reproducing genes, nothing more.
It's another nail in the coffin for god, if it goes ahead and is a successful procedure.
First they told us that god ''blesses'' us with children. Then we find out it's a recombination of genes that make a baby. Now it will be a recombination, with a bit from elsewhere.
At what point does god nip in, and attach a soul to what we have mixed up?
It will harden the understanding of the public, that a human is a mix of reproducing genes, nothing more.
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Maybe they could custom order altar boys.
Yeah well that's just, like, your opinion, man.
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