Reproductive Embryo Editing: Attending to Justice

Hastings Center Report 52 (4):26-33 (2022)
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Abstract

The use of genome embryo editing tools in reproduction is often touted as a way to ensure the birth of healthy and genetically related children. Many would agree that this is a worthy goal. The purpose of this paper is to argue that, if we are concerned with justice, accepting such goal as morally appropriate commits one to rejecting the development of embryo editing for reproductive purposes. This is so because safer and more effective means exist that can allow many more prospective parents to achieve the same valued goal and that offer additional benefits.

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Inmaculada de Melo-Martin
Weill Cornell Medicine--Cornell University

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