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dipsydoodle

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5. Thanks for the explanation

Reply to muriel_volestrangler (Reply #3)

Mon Sep 17, 2012, 05:57 PM

Sep 2012

I could only grasp what the intention was from its intended outcome. I knew of the problems with Huntingdon's Chorea when I was a teenager - a friends wife had passed it to both their sons. Hopefully this would help end that and other inherited diseases.

For anyone who don't know - Woody Guthrie inherited Huntingdons from his mother.

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UK - 'Three-parent baby' fertility technique could be made legal. [View all] dipsydoodle Sep 2012 OP

If it doesn't hurt the parents or baby, I don't have a problem with it. I suppose there might be an GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #1

There's no problem with 'sharing DNA with people you have children with' muriel_volestrangler Sep 2012 #2

Thanks for the clarification. That's good to know. (And maybe I did know it once GreenPartyVoter Sep 2012 #4

Interesting phrase, "copying mistake" Trillo Sep 2012 #6

I don't see a problem with it at all muriel_volestrangler Sep 2012 #3

Thanks for the explanation dipsydoodle Sep 2012 #5