The recently updated South African Ethics in Health Research Guidelines have been a recent cause of concern, with some researchers and bioethicists interpreting them as allowing what’s known as heritable human genome editing. Rather than allowing heritable human genome editing, the guidelines acknowledge the reality that South African law already allows human genome editing. That this was the purpose is …
This is part of Opinionpalooza, Slate’s coverage of the major decisions from the Supreme Court this June. In Fischer v. United States, a divided Supreme Court, in an opinion by Chief Justice John Roberts, handed Donald Trump a political victory by saying the government overreached in prosecuting some of the Jan. 6 rioters. But it created a potentially big legal …
If the court continues to deploy their methods of interpretation, Breyer told me, “We will have a Constitution that no one wants.” It’s a remarkable statement from a former Supreme Court justice. Good point.” And then he would say that this method — what I think of as traditional, I think involves purposes, consequences, values and sometimes much more — …
On the final day of hearings in the marriage equality case before the Supreme Court, the counsels for petitioners argued their rejoinder submissions on rights of queer couples to adopt and raise children, on workability of relief sought by the petitioners, and on statutory interpretation among other things. Studies show no adverse impact on children raised by queer couples: Senior …
