Ethics Of A Three-Parent Baby

It seems counterintuitive that the human body is able to use 3 partners DNA for one baby, even though it is normally just 2 partners. Although this sounds like a wild idea, it is exactly what is happening.

The UK is soon to become the first country to allow 3 parents to provide DNA for a baby. This is to try and prevent birth defects in the baby. The replacement of the defective mitochondrial DNA in the first women’s egg with mitochondrial DNA from the second woman’s egg could help prevent birth defects in the baby that many lead to seizures and the absence of healthy DNA in the child. While this is all true, it still means that the baby will be the product of 3 parents instead of 2, making them no longer a couple of biological parents.

Africa Should Screen Americans For Measles

It seems counterintuitive that Africans have more to fear from American visitors then we do of them. A tweet from Nigerian writer and lawyer Elnathan” John, that garnered 35,000 retweets, stated that his thoughts were also with the “:measles-ravaged” country of America and hoped that Africa was screening American visitors.

He made this comment in response to the fact that all Africans must be screened for Ebola before coming to America, even though three measles are 9 times more contagious then Ebola. Normally the measles aren’t fatal, but they did kill 430 children a day in 2011 worldwide.

Is This Photo Ethical?

It seems counterintuitive that we send photographers into dangerous situations in order for them to capture pictures based on our need to see them, but then accused them of making light of a serious situation for their own personal gain.

An earthquake in January 2010 killed 230,000 Haitians. The earthquake was not the only thing that killed these people, the buildings that preceded to fall after the earthquake also killed thousands due to them not being structurally sound. And the chaos that ensued between police looters and rioters killed even more. Many photographers went to Haiti to try and capture the events taking place within all the chaos.

Groups of photographers crowded around bodies of the people who were killed during the earthquake and those who were killed after. In images related to 15 year old Fabianne Cherisma who was shot by a police officer you could see a crowd of photographers all trying to get a picture of the body from the same angle.