Evaluating the Lives of Others.

Abstract

the need for treatment, they choose the risk of having to treat an affected fetus over the risk of having to reject an affected embryo. I regard this as the morally better choice (Wasserman and Asch 2006); it manifests a preference for qualified acceptance over categorical rejection. But, to end on a concurring note, even this limited virtue cannot be found in the choice made by prospective parents who employ gene-editing for enhancement. In seeking a “better” child than mere selection could yield, they display a reluctance to parent an unenhanced child. With Sparrow, I think their decision would manifest a morally unattractive perfectionism.