Does gene-editing human embryos cross a moral line?
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“Editing the human germ line poses an irreversible biological alteration that affects future generations, which makes biological errors threatening to entrench class inequities into the gene pool itself.”
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Editing the human germ line poses an irreversible biological alteration that affects future generations, which makes biological errors threatening to entrench class inequities into the gene pool itself.
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Editing the human germ line poses an irreversible biological alteration that affects future generations, which makes biological errors threatening to entrench class inequities into the gene pool itself.
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