A very important ethical debate that could affect the future of humanity itself has been triggered by the announcement that scientists have successfully corrected a defective gene in a human embryo … The prospect suddenly opens up of ridding the human race for ever of an ancient scourge.
17 August 2017, The Tablet
A newly fertilised embryo is not, in any common sense view, a ‘person’ as you and I
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