Making ‘designer babies’ without ethics is a recipe for disaster
by Ryan Anderson, New York Post:
Should scientists be using gene-editing technology on human embryos, rewriting the basic makeup of the human person in the race to prevent disease? The potential benefits are tempting. The bioethical concerns are grave: from human-embryo destruction to the creation of “designer babies” to the blurring of boundaries between therapy and “enhancement.”
Some scientists are ready to close the debate — though the ethical issues are unresolved — and press full-steam ahead with their experiments.
In a speech in Hong Kong last month, George Daley, dean of Harvard’s medical school, said it’s “time to move forward from” debates about “ethical permissibility to outline the path to clinical translation.”
Trust us, the scientists, in other words.
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