In the summer of 2019, I had the privilege to spend a few weeks attending the International Institute of Islamic Thought (IIIT) summer program. There, I chose gene-editing as my topic of interest and in an effort to find relevant English-language works was directed to the institute’s publications on bioethics.
Boston University Professor George J. Annas concisely noted in 1984 that "dependable birth control made sex without reproduction possible…now medicine is closing the circle…by offering methods of reproduction without sex."
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