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摘要

"Playing God" is what medicine is for. Every Cae-sarean section and cancer treatment is an attempt to interfere with the natural course of events for the benefit of the patient. Not every procedure should be allowed, but a general sense of what is "unnatural" is a poor guide to what to ban. Transplants and transfusions were once considered unnatural, but now save many lives. That insight is why mps were right to agree, on February 3rd, that Britain should become the first country to allow the creation of children with genetic material from three people instead of the usual two (see page 55).