Feminist Proposal: Are We Ok To Do?

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In this week’s article I found myself contradicting it in a few things. I want to point out that I am ok with the fact that scientist do a lot of experiments especially if it's in our favor. What I am not ok with is that scientist tend to go out of hand and do crazy experiments that make humans think it’s ok to do. It’s as if they are tempting them to accept whatever they are doing to be ok. Therefore, I like what CRISPR does. Though they are times when they should have a reality check and ask themselves if it’s ok whatever they are doing. I have my pros and cons about this ¨fixing DNA.¨ I agree that they should try to find a way to cure diseases such as sickle-cell anemia, muscular dystrophy, and many more hereditary diseases. What I don’t

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