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The final line crossed? McLaren on science ‘abolishing the biological mother’

Michael McLaren
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Michael McLaren has weighed in on the news that scientists created functional human eggs from skin cells.

He questions the moral implications of a breakthrough that could allow for children with two genetic fathers and no biological mother, arguing that science is now attempting to erase the necessity of maternal DNA.

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