Footnotes

• ↵i Gyngell C,1 Bowman-Smart H and Savulescu J (2019) available at: http://nuffieldbioethics.org/project/genome-editing-human-reproduction.

• ↵ii In particular, they contrast the Nuffield report with the principles advanced by the US National Academies, which they see (rightly, in my view) as being capable of licensing contradictory states of affairs; see: National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine (2017)2. It is ironic, then, the NAS report envisions moral discourse primarily in the mode of an institutional review board. (For my response this, see: http://nuffieldbioethics.org/project/genome-editing-human-reproduction).

• ↵iii This inclusive process may offer a way of collectively examining ‘social harms’ and broaching ‘collective action problems’, for which Gyngell et al 1 propose broadening the second Nuffield principle.

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