“Because the male-female dyad is essential to human nature and because every child has a right to a mother and father, three-parent embryo creation and human cloning research should be banned.”
Citation: Project 2025, Section 3.5: Department of Health and Human Services, Roger Severino, page 493, paragraph 5
Context:
This mischaracterizes the purpose of “three-parent embryo creation.”
What it IS, is removing the nucleus from a mother’s egg and placing it into a donor egg with healthy mitochondria, which is then fertilized by the father. The goal is to prevent mothers from passing on genetic illnesses that they’re aware they carry (and are caused by mitochondrial disease.) Examples of mitochondrial diseases that babies can inherit include MELAS syndrome, Kearns-Sayre syndrome, Leigh syndrome, neuropathy, ataxia, NARP, Pearson syndrome, and more. This practice enables women who carry hereditary genetic diseases to have healthy biological children.
Full contextual analysis of Section 3.5: Department of Health and Human Services here.