Procreative Beneficence and Genome Editing.

Abstract

ments in favor of reproductive embryo editing. I think that Sparrow’s call to better understand how to conceptualize the effects of genome editing on identity is well taken. As he indicates, the challenges presented by genome-editing are already complex enough that we should be reluctant to muddle the debate any more than needed. That said, and without denying the significance of the nonidentity problem in reproductive ethics, we should also resist giving too much importance to the challenges presented by the nonidentity problem when assessing the ethical permissibility of developing and using reprogenetic technologies. Let’s not limit our argumentative options.