you are influencing them at the stage of being an embryo
I’m mainly talking about engineering that happens before the embryo stage.
That’s just not a morally coherent distinction, nor is it one the law makes
Of course it’s one the law makes. IIUC it’s not even illegal for a pregnant woman to drink alcohol.
If you want to start a campaign to legalize the blinding of children, well, we have a free speech clause, you are entitled to do that. Have you considered maybe doing it separately from the genetic engineering thing?
I can’t tell if you’re strawmanning to make a point, or what, but anyway this makes absolutely no sense.
I’m mainly talking about engineering that happens before the embryo stage.
I’m not sure if you’re correcting my technical vocabulary or trying to counter my argument. Either is welcome. While I am excited about this technology and its potential to improve the human species, I’m obviously not a biologist myself.
Of course it’s one the law makes. IIUC it’s not even illegal for a pregnant woman to drink alcohol.
Nor is it illegal to use harsh language with your children. “Abuse” is a word that exists to pick out a sufficiently extreme degree of wrong that most people would not do it, and intervention is warranted against those who do. Most states do regulate drug use by pregnant women somehow, see https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/maternity-drug-policies-by-state. And the controversy around this is based mostly on the idea that taking a medical approach rather than a criminalization approach results in better outcomes for the children, which is an argument that just doesn’t translate over to the genetic engineering context.
I’m mainly talking about engineering that happens before the embryo stage.
Of course it’s one the law makes. IIUC it’s not even illegal for a pregnant woman to drink alcohol.
I can’t tell if you’re strawmanning to make a point, or what, but anyway this makes absolutely no sense.
I’m not sure if you’re correcting my technical vocabulary or trying to counter my argument. Either is welcome. While I am excited about this technology and its potential to improve the human species, I’m obviously not a biologist myself.
Nor is it illegal to use harsh language with your children. “Abuse” is a word that exists to pick out a sufficiently extreme degree of wrong that most people would not do it, and intervention is warranted against those who do. Most states do regulate drug use by pregnant women somehow, see https://projects.propublica.org/graphics/maternity-drug-policies-by-state. And the controversy around this is based mostly on the idea that taking a medical approach rather than a criminalization approach results in better outcomes for the children, which is an argument that just doesn’t translate over to the genetic engineering context.