It is not that the name given to these babies born to save the life of a brother I like too much, but the reality of the fact is. The first baby medicine was born in France, designed to cure one of his older siblings, affected by a type of genetic anemia called beta-thalassemia.
The baby, who weighed 3'650 kilograms, was born at the end of January outside Paris, in a hospital in the town of Clamart and is well, according to the specialists of that center.
The boy has been called Umut-Talha ("our hope" in Turkish) and was conceived by in vitro fertilization after a double diagnosis that guaranteed that the embryo was healthy and was genetically like one of his sick older brothers.
Through the cells extracted from the umbilical cord of the newborn a transplant may be performed in the future which will eliminate the disease of his older brother.
In Spain we already talked about the first case of a baby who had saved his brother's life, suffering from an incurable anemia. Although it has been now when it has occurred in France, where this practice is allowed since 2004.
In Spain, given this reality, it has been proposed to finance treatments for the birth of these "medicine babies", a measure that is not without controversy, since many sectors consider that selecting embryos, or rather discarding others, is not ethical.
I think about what the parents would have to go through suffering for their sick child until they had their new baby, and I think they would have done the same instead. In short, it seems to me that with these "medicine babies", instead of being born a life, two are born, and that is always good news.
