I agree that once this is possible, and advantageous, it will happen. Flying out to Thailand or wherever is already cheap compared to any serious medical proced

I agree that once this is possible, and advantageous, it will happen. Flying out to Thailand or wherever is already cheap compared to any serious medical procedure. Would we arrest people if they come home pregnant? But before we see this for editing, we will see it for embryo selection... which has all the same questions in milder forms. I'm similarly appalled by your friend's beliefs, although I imagine Beijing will not feel the same way. Besides worries about individual illness, I worry that self-interested improvements may accidentally remove certain types of people it turns out we need. For example, what if a change protective against autism turned out to weed out the best scientists? For each individual this may be a great choice.