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December 4, 2018

Gene-editing human embryos 'a train wreck of a thing to do', ethicist says

Scientist He Jiankui shows "The Human Genome," a book he edited, at his company. Direct Genomics, in Shenzhen, China, Aug.4, 2016. An ethicist calls Jiankui's gene editing on a human embryo "a train wreck of a thing to do."
WASHINGTON – The revelation in late November that a Chinese researcher had edited genes in human embryos and then implanted them in a woman was "a train wreck of a thing to do," said an ethicist at the National Catholic Bioethics Center in Philadelphia.
Published in International
June 6, 2018

Assisted reproduction, surrogacy laws challenged

Suzanna Scorsone, Royal Commission member for five years, says, "Surrogacy for hire would set a dangerous precedent because it would, in effect, legalize a form of child trafficking."

A private memberöÏÓãÊÓƵapp bill that would decriminalize the purchase of sperm, eggs and rent-a-womb surrogacy would open the door to exploitation of poor women and legalize a form of child trafficking, according to a member of the 1990s Royal Commission on New Reproductive Technologies.

Published in Canada