Thread by @SurrogConcern

We cannot state strongly enough how dangerous this is.

Production of in vitro derived gametes (artificial eggs & sperm derived from skin cells) is imminent.

We are hugely worried about this and raised the alarm with @SciTechgovuk @DHSCgovuk this summer.

theguardian.com/science/2025/j…

This is not safe. Long term impacts totally unknown.

Allowing the potential creation of human children from artificially generated sperm and egg cells from the skin of potentially more than two parents is dangerous and unethical.

There is no safe framework. It should be banned.

We can see the sob stories now: “I haven’t met a life partner, the technology exists, I should be allowed to do this”.

Total insanity; we are sleepwalking in to a dystopian nightmare. No, we’re not being melodramatic: it is that bad.

Government and @HFEA must quash this.

There is no justification for allowing use, research or development of in vitro derived gametes. None.

This is not being anti-science. This is being campaigners who see- daily- the awful consequences of developments in the fertility sector which wreak havoc on women & babies.

Barely any campaign groups or media outlets are paying consistent and in depth attention to this agenda, or to what is happening at the fringes of embryology.

That must change, urgently.