IVF Experiments That Mix And Match Multiple Adults’ DNA Are Bad For Kids And Society, by Jordan Boyd

By Jordan Boyd, The Federalist, July 17, 2025

Jordan Boyd is a staff writer at The Federalist and producer of The Federalist Radio Hour. Her work has also been featured in The Daily Wire, Fox News, and RealClearPolitics. Jordan graduated from Baylor University where she majored in political science and minored in journalism. Follow her on X @jordanboydtx.

“How are babies made?” is an age-old question that has sent centuries of parents scrambling for an answer. The go-to explanation, of course, goes something like “Well, when a man and a woman love each other very much…” A new in vitro fertilization experiment that yielded eight “healthy” live births after injecting purchased eggs with the DNA of a man and another woman, however, threatens to invalidate that reliable response.

Researchers in the United Kingdom, which rearranged its laws in 2015 to accommodate the “pronuclear transfer” trials, pitched their “three-person IVF” experiment as a means to lessen the chances of mitochondrial mutations that lead to genetic disorders in infants conceived via IVF.

Corporate media outlets across the globe, such as The Guardian and Financial Times, echoed those talking points in their coverage of the venture. …

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