The road to enhancement, via human gene editing, is paved with good intentions

It appears that researchers in China have facilitated the birth of the first "designer baby" – actually babies, twin girls who are supposedly genetically resistant to HIV. The scientist who created the embryos, as well as some American scientists like Harvard's George Church, have praised the beneficent intent to producing a child who is resistant to disease. Who could argue with such good intentions?

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