Organ Donation for the Youngest Babies

Have you heard of three parent babies? Apparently, this has been going on for years. Also, organ donation babies?

Organ-donation Babies

Two or more children are created. The fertilized eggs are evaluated and the nucleus (the DNA) of one deemed “defective” or “undesirable” is removed and the nucleus of another is then inserted. So, one of the children created is allowed to live and the others are destroyed.

The donors and the parents all contribute to the construction and destruction of offspring. All of this is done at a cellular level. So, many people have no problem with it, ethically. I had no idea that it was happening. It seemed like science fiction on the verge of reality but I’ve read that some of the children are now in their teens.

It’s hard to imagine the callousness that would be required to be involved in such work. It must come from one’s ability to deny or a complete ignorance of the dignity of human life. Human beings have innate dignity. Our dignity comes from God and is attributed to us because we are made in His divine image.

Psalm 139 says that God has knit us together in our mother’s womb. He created us. This is a mystery to be sure.

Organelles

The article that prompted me to research the subject was actually about mitochondrial transfer. I have retired from nursing, but I still get some publications and often read about various medical considerations, especially as they relate to the right to life.

In this procedure, no children are destroyed. They use the DNA from a donor egg, but it has not been fertilized. So, it is actually an organ donation (organelle, really) from a willing donor. I would think that many experiments have been done to get there, though.

The organelle, in this case, is mitochondria. Our cells are complex structures with many moving parts. Mitochondria is sort of like a power station for a city. It was transferred to a newly fertilized egg because the family had suffered loss from Leigh Syndrome.

I don’t know about you, but I’m concerned that God’s children are being destroyed by a lack of the knowledge of the Truth masquerading as science. I’m not against research or even manipulation of cells. I am opposed to creating human life for the purpose of harvesting parts and destroying the new lives that exist.

We need to pray for God’s mercy and for His wisdom for the people involved in this. I was a person from the moment I was conceived and so were you. Our lives are a continuum. We should not be creating human lives with the intent to destroy them.

According to Scripture, our enemy the devil prowls around like a roaring lion looking for someone to devour. The thief came to steal, kill, and destroy. It is the devil that wants to destroy human beings.

Jesus came that we would have life, and that more abundantly. Let’s share that abundant life with all those around us.