Reproductive Embryo Editing: Attending to Justice

Abstract

The use of embryonic genome editing tools is often touted as a way to ensure the birth of healthy and genetically related children. Although many people value this goal, for the sake of justice, social resources should not be used to further develop embryo editing to this end. Instead, the resources should be invested in interventions that can enable a far greater number of potential parents to achieve this goal and that can provide additional benefits.

The Ethical Status of Germline Gene Editing in Future Space Missions: The Special Case of Positive Selection on Earth for Future Space Missions

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