Tag: CRISPR

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
June 5, 2026

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
Biotechnology, CRISPR, Designer babies, He Jiankui, Kathie Tie}

Do We Have the Will (or Desire) to Prevent Biotechnological Anarchy?

_{A long piece in The Guardian illustrates the stakes we face} _{Wesley J. Smith
June 5, 2026

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

Biotech companies agree to ban or voluntarily refrain from doing that which can’t yet be done but conduct the very experiments necessary to learn how to do it.

test tube baby. abstraction on the topic of in vitro fertilization. army of clones 3d render

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Wesley J. Smith
Date
October 18, 2025

Categorized
Ethics, Medicine and Health

Tagged
CRISPR, In vitro fertilization (IVF), Katy Faust, Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), Somatic cell nuclear transfer (SCNT)}

Radical Reproduction Turns Children Into Products

_{We are entering a world in which babies can be special-ordered} _{Wesley J. Smith
October 18, 2025

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Ethics, Medicine and Health}

All ethical boundaries are being obliterated as reproductive technologists manipulate the creation of new human life to fulfill any parental desire.