Genetic Editing: Russians Attempt to Cure Deaf Babies

[Sugarphreak]

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[ThePenIsMightier]

First of all... I lost a paycheque that this was not a ZenOps thread.
Second, I don't think one needs to be considered prejudicial to feel that subtracting about 20% of a human's senses is an undesirable hand to be dealt. I know only a couple people with hearing impairment and I'm not about to round them up into camps.
When the rubber meets the road, people will spare few expenses to ensure their offspring have a fair shake at life with minimal impediments/obstacles/handicaps. This becomes VERY real for folks 35+ who choose to have children when the odds of Down's Syndrome increase exponentially. There's a test that's done and it's done early that estimates the probability of a 47-chromosome embryo and then the parents are given an option to terminate.
Is this really that different? In many ways yes but in some ways not so much.
Overall, I have a distrust for the "science" coming out of semi-dictatorship regimes, so I'm not going to spend much time considering this as viable.

[SJW]

Russians should cure Fetal Alcohol Syndrome first.