NEWS: UK becomes the world's first country to allow three person babies.
- Daniel Padwick
- Feb 3, 2015
- 1 min read
MPs have voted in favour of creating three person babies, which makes the UK the first country in the world to allow the move.
DNA will be taken from two women and one man as 75% of the House of Commons voted in favour of the change.
A further vote is required in the House of Lords - but if everything goes to plan the first three person babie could be born as of next year.
The technique could be life-saving for people like Sharon Bernardi from Sunderland, who lost all of her seven children to mitochondrial disease.
In a Commons debate Public Health Minister Jane Ellison said: "This is a bold step for parliament to take, but it is an considered and informed step.
"For many families, this is light at the end of a very dark tunnel."
But Robert Flello, MP for Stoke-on-Trent south feared "families would be let down tragically" due to the uncertainties of three person babies and said if this was genetically modified crops society would be "up in arms."
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