Splicing a gene into a human embryo that every future generation will inherit should require the same kind of public approval as a new drug, not just a lab ethics sign-off. I say this as someone who watched a cousin spend nine years on dialysis waiting for a kidney match — germline editing could one day erase diseases like Huntington's before a child is even born, and that feels worth serious debate rather than a blanket ban. But I also know He Jiankui went to prison in China for doing exactly this in 2018, and his twin girls now carry edits nobody fully understands. So: should germline CRISPR on embryos be legal under strict oversight, or is the risk of a permanent mistake too high to ever allow?