Parents' primary responsibility is to ensure that the environment in which their kids grow up, the food they eat etc promote healthy development. For many pract

Parents' primary responsibility is to ensure that the environment in which their kids grow up, the food they eat etc promote healthy development. For many practical purposes, the kids' protein-building machinery including the nucleic acids, can be treated the same way as the environment, the food etc - another critical input to a developing human life. In this view, it is scarcely surprising that parents would want to give their kids viable genetic information just like they want to give their kids a good home, healthy food and challenging education. This desire to ensure the good of the kids is a strong force pushing humanity forward and I see no reason to object. Unequal access to shelter, food, education or genetic techniques is a different matter. But our failure to ensure universal access to the spoils of a new invention does not imply that there is something wrong with the invention. The real problem is more like the lack of compassion for other folks... So let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.