When the Milk of Human Kindness Becomes a Luxury Good

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 26 (1):159-165 (2017)
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Abstract

A new reprogenetic technology, mitochondrial replacement, is making its appearance and, unsurprisingly given its promise to wash off our earthly stains --or at least the scourges of sexual reproduction--, John Harris finds only reasons to celebrate this new scientific feat.1 In fact, he finds mitochondrial replacement techniques (MRTs) so “unreservedly welcome” that he believes those who reject them suffer from “a large degree of desperation and not a little callousness.”2 Believing myself to be neither desperate nor callous, but finding myself also no closer at all – not even after reading his article—to following Harris in welcoming these technologies wholeheartedly, it seems appropriate to respond.

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Inmaculada de Melo-Martin
Weill Cornell Medicine--Cornell University

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