{"id":86181,"date":"2018-12-28T14:43:45","date_gmt":"2018-12-28T22:43:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/ap-norc-poll-most-support-gene-editing-to-protect-babies"},"modified":"2018-12-28T14:43:45","modified_gmt":"2018-12-28T22:43:45","slug":"ap-norc-poll-most-support-gene-editing-to-protect-babies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2018\/12\/ap-norc-poll-most-support-gene-editing-to-protect-babies","title":{"rendered":"AP-NORC Poll: Most support gene editing to protect babies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/ap-norc-poll-most-support-gene-editing-to-protect-babies2.jpeg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Most Americans say it would be OK to use gene-editing technology to create babies protected against a variety of diseases \u2014 but a new poll shows they\u2019d draw the line at changing DNA so children are born smarter, faster or taller.<\/p>\n<p>A month after startling claims of the births of the world\u2019s first gene-edited babies in China, the poll by The Associated Press-NORC Center for Public Affairs Research finds people are torn between the medical promise of a technology powerful enough to alter human heredity and concerns over whether it will be used ethically.<\/p>\n<p>Jaron Keener, a 31-year-old exhibit designer at Pittsburgh\u2019s Carnegie Museum of Natural History, said he\u2019s opposed to \u201crich people being able to create designer babies.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/ef1161deac194f2ca1fd99457dc2cf15\">https:\/\/apnews.com\/ef1161deac194f2ca1fd99457dc2cf15<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 Most Americans say it would be OK to use gene-editing technology to create babies protected against a variety of diseases \u2014 but a new poll shows they\u2019d draw the line at changing DNA so children are born smarter, faster or taller. A month after startling claims of the births of the world\u2019s [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1902,11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-86181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-bioengineering","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=86181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/86181\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=86181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=86181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=86181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}