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This second cell, they say, comes from a 10-month-old boy who died during surgery. The two cells will be hit with an electrical charge, according to the scenario, and will fuse, forming a new hybrid cell that no longer has the genes of the young woman but now...
The first consideration is whether, even if we agreed on a good thing genetic engineering could accomplish (say, preventing cystic fibrosis), it would still be wrong in all cases to use it. Unless there's something purposeful about the particular assortment of genes we're born with, there seems no...
Rather than condemn the process per se, most of those who oppose genetic engineering do so with an eye to the modifications it allows. Preventing diseases is one thing, but the same procedure can also be used to prevent any condition the parents find inconvenient. Assuming such traits are controlled...
Some have responded to this question by citing a child's right to an "open future," a right that is frustrated once parents exercise genetic control. To have their health, looks and perhaps even personalities decided before birth supposedly reduces our children's freedom--it violates their identity, changing what...
Deciding which modifications are appropriate is merely a new form of the question, "What is the good?" If we can change our child's genes, we will have a responsibility to choose traits that will make our child's life better, whatever we may believe the good life to be...