{"id":170241,"date":"2017-08-08T17:30:50","date_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:30:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=170241"},"modified":"2017-08-08T17:30:50","modified_gmt":"2017-08-08T21:30:50","slug":"new-gene-editing-breakthrough-crispr-eradicates-disease-by-eradicating-human-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/new-gene-editing-breakthrough-crispr-eradicates-disease-by-eradicating-human-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"Progress? New gene editing breakthrough eradicates disease by eradicating human lives"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Science fiction took a step closer to reality recently when researchers<\/a> announced they had successfully altered human genes in order to potentially eradicate genetically inherited health conditions. While the ability to save human lives is always an astounding accomplishment, doing so by purposefully creating human embryos with a disease only to cure them and then destroy them is an unethical way to approach medicine. It also opens the door to creating designer babies who would be forced to live up to unrealistic expectations.<\/p>\n

Researchers have called gene editing through a method known as CRISPR<\/a>\u00a0“fun,” but you would have to believe that taking human lives is enjoyable in order to celebrate this most recent breakthrough in gene editing. There isn’t anything “fun” about eugenics. CRISPR acts a scissor, cutting out the mutated gene, which is then replaced by a healthy version. It has the potential to cure the human race of single-gene conditions such as Huntington\u2019s disease \u2013 in which brain damage gets progressively worse with tremors, personality changes and mobility difficulties – and even those with conditions caused by two gene mutations – one from each parent – such as cystic fibrosis.<\/p>\n

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