Two Fathers One Egg

While we might assume a priori that a child of two same-sex parents would be considered as much a person as anyone else, Hoffman cautions against such assumptions: “While it may be ethically convenient to adhere to a single notion of personhood, and certainly makes ethical analysis simpler, we may yet conclude that advances in synthesized ovum, just as in acceptance of personhood for artificial intelligence machine beings, require that we refine and adapt our definitions of the rights afforded to human people,” he says. In terms of its potential utility, a new technique, if eventually scaled up to humans, could expand the arsenal of infertility treatments already available to co-ed couples, but it could also produce a baby from two fathers. That’s because either a male or a female individual can supply the genome of a synthesized ovum (female gamete) that an international team of embryology researchers has learned to produce and to fertilize. <a href="https://medium.com/neodotlife/two-fathers-one-egg-53fe71cd77d8">Read More</a>