Monique Verdin, "Headwaters : Tamaracks + Time : Lake Itasca" (2019), digital assemblage. Photograph taken in 2019; United States War Department map of the route passed over by an expedition into the Indian country in 1832 to the source of the Mississippi River.

Three-parent Baby Raises International Ethics Concern

October 4, 2016

 

10/4/16 – With revolutionary developments in reproductive technologies occurring in many nations, a researcher and a writer joined in Issues to examine the accompanying global bioethical debates. Concerns recently kicked into higher gear with the birth of a “three-parent” baby, born to a couple from Jordan who traveled to Mexico for treatment using a controversial new fertilization technique developed by a US scientist and applied with his help in this case without regulatory approval by any government.