Possible ethical considerations for CRISPR Gene Editing lie in autonomy of children. People may consider gene editing to be playing as God, and not allowing children to be born autonomously, despite the possibilities of ensuring a completely healthy child. Gene editing may be beneficial to modify or prevent genes from being born into children that would limit or prevent children from having a normal, happy life. This may also be a can of worms, and open doors to the small minority of wealthy people who may want to have designer children, picking traits they deem desirable, and perhaps those traits may become exclusive to the rich. Perhaps people (wealth aside) may want to recreate the next Michael Phelps, who was Marfan Syndrome, where he has unusually long limbs in addition to being double jointed and being the world’s best Men’s Olympic Swimmer of all time with 23 gold medals. While that sounds far fetched, it isn’t impossible to attempt to recreate these times of anomalies, and other, undesirable genes for swimming (and many more) will potentially cease.

My position lies strictly with ensuring children can be born safely. If there is a way to remove genetic diseases that harm the human race or impact the livelihood of children, it should always be considered. However, trying to design children to be more appealing in the eyes of their parents, I believe it is ethically wrong.