Healthy three-parent babies: but does the end justify the means?

Healthy three-parent babies: but does the end justify the means?

In Britain recently it was announced to huge fanfare that eight babies had been born using a new genetic technique which ensured they were not born with a hereditary condition which could have fatal consequences. The babies have three genetic parents, and the new technique was treated as an unambiguous good in almost all media. If eight healthy babies were born without a terrible hereditary condition, who could complain? But that depends on what…