Designer babies beat muscular dystrophy: "We played God to save our children" | News | News Of The World: "We played God to save our children
Couple's designer babies beat killer disease
ABOVE: Harry, left, and Jack with mum Nadine. TOP OF PAGE: Nadine with Carly, left, and Stevie
ABOVE: Harry, left, and Jack with mum Nadine. TOP OF PAGE: Nadine with Carly, left, and Stevie
By Guy Basnett, 07/12/2008
LOVING mum Nadine Green tenderly cuddles the healthy twin daughters she SAVED . . . from a genetic disease slowly KILLING her sons.
Today she reveals how she and husband Simon “played God” to make sure she gave birth to GIRLS after her beloved little boys were struck down by terminal muscular dystrophy.
“I had no choice but to do it,” says Nadine who resorted to controversial “designer baby therapy” to choose the sex of her six-week-old twins.
“I’ve watched my boys go from learning to stand and being able to walk, to not being able to walk and in a wheelchair. No one can know what that’s like for a mum.”
Nadine wanted to give her dying boys Harry, eight, and five-year-old Jack a sister to share their love with. Doctors told her a girl would be less likely to develop the muscle-wasting illness that she carries i"
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