GM "designer babies" webinar: Breakthrough or nightmare? | Dec 8, 7pm GMT online, organised by Stop Designer Babies | In 2018, Chinese scientists created the world’s first genetically modified (GM) babies. Despite the worldwide outrage, next March the science establishment are meeting in London to push the ‘genome editing’ agenda forward.
Some scientists claim that genetic modification is needed to prevent genetic diseases, but is that really true? In a world still riven with disability, race and class oppression and other examples of eugenics, will allowing people to engineer their babies’ genes make social inequalities even worse? Will it turn children into just another designed and optimised commodity?
Join this free online event to discuss these issues and what we can do about them.
Register here.
Sigrid Graumann, feminist bioethicist and member of the German Ethics Council will make the case against GM babies.
Angus Clarke, clinical geneticist from Cardiff University will explain why genetic modification is unnecessary.
PLUS contributions from members of Stop Designer Babies (SDB), tbc
Chair: Dave King, SDB
Register here. For more information, or to be kept informed about SDB events, contact info@stopdesignerbabies.org. Another event is planned for February on the links between climate, GM food and GM babies. __________________________________________________________ Website: http://www.gmwatch.org Profiles: http://www.powerbase.info/index.php/GM_Watch:_Portal Twitter: http://twitter.com/GMWatch Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/GMWatch/276951472985?ref=nf |
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