Genome Editing is our Future, but is it Moral?

Customizing a human being used to be a topic of science fiction, but with technology such as CRISPR/Cas9, it is now a relevant moral dilemma. CRISPR was originally just a part of an antiviral mechanism in certain bacteria. Now, CRISPR/Cas9 can perform genome editing (CRISPR Therapeutics). The process of genome editing results in removing viruses by means of disruptions, deletions, or corrections of the affected DNA strands. The moral question of whether or not we should use gene editing tools on human somatic (sex) cells, which would alter the genetics of all the future descendants of the…