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Britain set for historic vote on ‘three-parent’ babies

– ‘Destructive manipulation’ –

But many Britons are still against the proposed change despite years of consultation by health authorities with the public and the scientific community.

A poll by the ComRes market research agency in the run-up to the vote showed only 20 percent of respondents in favour of the change and 41 percent against, while 39 percent said they had no view either way or did not know.

Opponents include scientists and religious leaders.

David King, director of the watchdog group Human Genetics Alert, said: “If we want to avoid the nightmare designer baby future we must draw the line here.”

Josephine Quintavalle from the pro-life organisation Comment on Reproductive Ethics said there should be more focus on finding cures “which do not rely on destructive manipulation of early human life”.

The Roman Catholic Church is firmly opposed to the move, pointing out that it would involve the destruction of human embryos as part of the process.

The Church of England has also said that ethical concerns “have not been sufficiently explored”.

There is also concern on purely scientific grounds.

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Justin St John from the Centre for Genetic Diseases at Monash University in Australia said the new IVF techniques required “further validation”.

“It is essential to analyse offspring to determine that no abnormalities appear at least during early life,” he said in a statement last week.

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