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Interview: "The Threat That CRISPR Poses to Disabled People"
Brink News, March 15, 2021.
The gene-editing technology CRISPR promises enormous potential as a therapeutic for curing illnesses, including potentially devising new vaccines.
But the disabled community is becoming increasingly concerned about the possibility of using CRISPR to eliminate so-called defective genes in the embryo. This raises profound questions about what it means to be disabled and the need to embrace diversity.
ReadOp-Ed: "The Dark Side of CRISPR."
With Rosemarie Garland-Thompson, Scientific American. February 2021.
Its potential ability to “fix” people at the genetic level is a threat to those who are judged by society to be biologically inferior.