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When the Milk of Human Kindness Becomes a Luxury (and Untested) Good

A Reply to Harris’s Unconditional Embrace of Mitochondrial Replacement Techniques

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 December 2016

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Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics , Volume 26 , Issue 1 , January 2017 , pp. 159 - 165
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2. See note 1, Harris 2015, at 10.

3. See note 1, Harris 2015, at 11.

4. See note 1, Harris 2015, at 12.

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17. See note 5, Baylis 2013.

* I assume that “genetically” is inadvertently missing from Harris’s claim; otherwise, his argument would make little sense as one supporting MRTs. In any case, it is important to point out that one can relate to one’s children in ways that have nothing to do with sharing a genetic connection.