> A January 2016 poll of a thousand American adults conducted by STAT and Harvard’s Chan School of Public Health found that although 69 percent of Americans had heard nothing or not much about genetic enhancement, nearly the same number felt that genetically altering unborn babies to reduce their risk of developing serious diseases should be illegal. Eighty three percent felt that genetic alterations to improve the intelligence or physical characteristics of unborn babies should be banned.
If use of gene-editing technology in humans runs far and fast ahead of public support, the discussion will look like a mixture of the moral panic over cheap and popular drones and that over the videos alleging the sale of fetal tissue.
The choice of messages includes: "gene selection improves lives", "cool! luminous goldfish", and "their babies will be Aliens!". Choose wisely.