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Genetics and Human Malleability
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should be used only for the treatment of serious disease and not for putative
improvements.
Our society is comfortable with the use of genetic engineering to treat
individuals with serious disease. On medical and ethical grounds we should
draw a line excluding any form of enhancement engineering. We should not
step over the line that delineates treatment from enhancement.
From W. French Anderson, “Genetics and Human Malleability,”
Hastings Center
Report
(January/February 1990): 21-24.