I don’t fully understand why other than to gesture at the general hand-wringing that happens any time someone proposes doing something new in human reproduction.
I have the perfect quote for this.
A breakthrough, you say? If it’s in economics, at least it can’t be dangerous. Nothing like gene engineering, laser beams, sex hormones or international relations. That’s where we don’t want any breakthroughs. ”
(Galbraith, 1990) A Tenured Professor, Houghton Mifflin; Boston.
I have the perfect quote for this.