British MPs have approved Tuesday by 382 votes against 128, the design babies from three different DNA to prevent the transmission of serious diseases.
If this poll makes the UK the first country to authorize this process, controversy, particularly abroad continues. In France, José Bové, already opposed to the Medically Assisted Procreation (PMA) and Surrogacy (GPA) said no to such procedures.
For the Green MEP, contacted by euronews, "this decision is contrary to European law. It shows, moreover, that developments in genetic therapy and transgenic manipulations are too fast. They have become uncontrolled or uncontrollable. "
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The decision must still be approved by the House of Lords on February 23, a step considered a formality.
About 125 babies are born each year in Britain with mitochondrial dysfunction, transmitted by the mother, according to AFP. Mitochondria are small organelles (specialized structures) present in cells that convert glucose into energy molecule.
Defective, they cause an energy deficit for the body and are responsible for serious degenerative diseases such as diabetes or myopathy. A technique developed at Newcastle, will block the transmission of the disease from mother to child. It involves removing the egg from the mother defective mitochondria and replace it with healthy mitochondria from another woman who remains anonymous.
"For the first time a human being is genetically manipulated"
For the MEP figure of the alter-globalization "so far, most of the geneticists activity had brought to the manipulation of plants and animals. Today, as expected, the man has become the main issue. New methods of LDCs, the GPA and now embryo manipulation open up possibilities whose repercussions are not even evaluable. "
"The transfer of an embryo in a mitochondrion of a third person takes another barrier. For the first time a human being is genetically manipulated which will impact all his descendants, "says the former Green candidate for the European Commission.
"Science is only ephemeral truth"
"Some geneticists did not understand that the knowledge they consider absolute certainties will quickly invalidated by their own students. Science is only ephemeral truth, "says José Bové, signed with 45 other MEPs, of an open letter calling on the British lawmakers to vote no. Without success.
But for the French elected, we must look further. "The other fundamental question we must ask ourselves is whether our companies are obliged to accept all that is considered feasible by some laboratory technicians. Will we accept such cloning men because we can clone animals? Should we go blindly into the future transhumanist we concoct some leaders of Google and other firms? "
"I say no. Our societies should not submit to the dictates of the sorcerer's apprentice, "he concluded.
