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by Naomi Scheinerman, quoting I. Glenn Cohen (Faculty Director)
Genetic Literacy Project
February 19, 2019

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"In the legislative realm, the US Congress is poised to renew its ban on creating CRISPR babies, as well as “three-parent babies” that are used to prevent mitochondrial disease inheritance. But blocking all embryonic DNA changes create new problems, argues I. Glenn Cohen, a bioethicist and legal scholar. The approach problematically curtails all endeavors, rather than just the more controversial applications, he said. As a representative body, Congress is meant to be held accountable to the interests of its constituents, but barring any knowledge of what its constituents actually want (such as in the case of CRISPR), it often acts in order to promote its own interest (namely re-election), and CRISPR babies are most likely not popular particularly after November’s shocking revelation that Chinese scientist He Jiankui had successfully created the world’s first gene-edited babies."

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