AMA Journal of Ethics^®

The Holocaust and the racial hygiene doctrine that helped rationalize it still overshadow contemporary debates about using gene editing for disease prevention.

Transnational monitoring efforts should focus on safety, defining standard of care, and promoting just access to innovation.

Empathic communication skills help motivate understanding of safety, significance of harms, impact on succeeding generations, and social consequences.

Should couples undergoing IVF be allowed to request sex selection for nonmedical so-called family balancing?

Most discussion about using prenatal interventions to choose traits of children involves selecting traits that will contribute to intelligence, athleticism or strength, resistance to disease, and longevity, outcomes many of us would find desirable for ourselves.