My spouse and I agreed to wait until our daughter is 18 to let her decide about CRISPR correction for her genetic condition, but now she's 16 and asking why we're making her suffer unnecessarily and we're realizing our ethical stance might be causing real harm. We don't know how to revisit a decision we felt so sure about.
More people experience this than they realize.
Principled decisions made in abstract time collide with the lived reality of suffering in the present moment.
“Where Are You with CRISPR and genetic technology?”
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