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A reminder why gene-edited embryos are a terrible idea
By Charles C. Camosy — November 30, 2018
(RNS) — Fifty years ago, a Harvard Medical School committee gave us a definition of brain death that changed how we value human life. This week the school's dean showed the same incaution regarding gene-edited babies.
Gene editing: Gateway to Promised Land, or key to Pandora’s box?
By Yonat Shimron — August 3, 2017
(RNS) — Arguments about perfect babies, mutant humans or eugenics are not going to stop attempts to prevent disease or repair disease, says bioethicist Arthur Caplan. But there are steps religious groups can take now.
COMMENTARY: When it comes to personhood, science is a ‘category error’
By Jeffrey Weiss — July 8, 2014
(RNS) Science is all but useless in arguments about personhood. Because almost everyone who takes a position does so on the basis of religious belief.
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