The phrase "genetic children" is grammatically correct and can be used in written English.
It is used to refer to children who are biologically related to their parents, as opposed to adopted or stepchildren. Example: The fertility clinic offers options for couples who are unable to have genetic children of their own.
Genome editing of embryos might not help many people, but it could give couples with genetic disorders a chance to have their own genetic children.
Yet, as an infertility specialist, I often see women -- and men -- who have been lulled into a mistaken belief that there is a medical technique that will allow women to have their genetic children whenever they choose.
In November 2005, I wrote an article about two teenage girls, raised in different families, who discovered they are the genetic children of the same sperm donor.
My Lords, the purpose of the regulations is to enable women to have their own genetic children, free of terrible disease caused by disorders in their mitochondrial DNA (Hansard, 2015b: Col 1569).
Similarly in the House of Lords, The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State at the Department of Health opened the debate saying, My Lords, the purpose of the regulations is to enable women to have their own genetic children, free of terrible disease caused by disorders in their mitochondrial DNA (Hansard, 2015b: Col 1569).
Perhaps the most controversial thesis to come out of these programs is the thesis that it is more natural, a la biology, for stepfathers to abuse their stepchildren than their genetic children on account of selection pressures that weighed on our Pleistocene ancestors.
The dichotomy has bred a strange resentment of the latter, who is perceived as a genetic child of privilege.
"It may provide new, revolutionary options for women to have their own genetic child.
To the Editor: The purpose of surrogacy is the fulfillment of one of our deepest longings, a genetic child, not the creation of an unrelated perfect child.
We also need to confront our illusions about having a genetic child if we are going to put so much faith in medical solutions, he adds.
Judge Francis B. Schultz of Superior Court, who ruled in the case in Hudson County, N.J., relied heavily on the precedent established by the New Jersey Supreme Court in 1988 in the case of Baby M. The surrogate in that case, Mary Beth Whitehead, carried her own genetic child for another couple after artificial insemination with the man's sperm.
