Family · Nationwide · September 1, 2026
AMA: Gene-Editing Trials for Blood Disorders Now Reaching Younger Children
According to the American Medical Association, gene-editing research aimed at treating blood disorders is now being extended to younger pediatric patients, a shift from earlier trials that focused primarily on older children and adults. The AMA's report signals an expansion of experimental genetic intervention into a younger age group, though specific trial protocols, consent procedures, and long-term outcomes are still emerging.
Source: American Medical Association | AMA
Why Bible-Believing Christians Should Care
Bible-believing Christians hold that human beings are made in the image of God, with bodies that are not raw material for open-ended experimentation, especially the bodies of children who cannot fully consent. Gene editing aimed at genuinely curing a serious disease differs morally from genetic modification pursued for other ends, and the line between therapy and engineering deserves careful watching as trials move to younger patients. Christians should not reflexively oppose medical treatment for real suffering, but they should insist that any intervention on a child's body meet a high bar of established necessity, transparency, and parental informed consent rather than being normalized simply because the technology exists.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. — Genesis 1:27
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False expertise against legitimate authority. We have to distinguish between the two. Legitimate expertise is technical competence exercised under moral authority, like a mathematics teacher explaining algebra. False expertise is ideology wearing the costume of science in order to usurp moral authority, like a counselor telling a child that his parents are unsafe because they hold biblical views on gender.
— Chapter 18, “The Expert Against the Parent”
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