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# Wellspring: Genetic engineering:
Fully privatize it: don't allow people to modify species which they cannot fully privatize and control and keep restricted to their own private property. For example, you can modify your dog, but not mosquitoes. Place the burden of proof on the modifier and owner to prove that they can in fact, contain the modified creature and its progeny, and also ban germ line editing in those creatures.
The same for crops/plants: no germ line editing which you cannot prove you can contain to your own farm/greenhouse (vertical farming is a boon here).
## Somatic cell editing:
Somatic cells can be edited without restriction, as long as the activity does not constitute a Non-Ameliorable Harmful Activity (`NAHA`) as defined elsewhere in this constitution.
## Germ line editing:
All germ-line editing is automatically classified as being a `NAHA` and the burden of proof that it is not a `NAHA` rests on the entity producing the specimen. Furthemore the conagent engaging in the activity must demonstrate that **all** descendants of their germ-line edited specimen can be completely tracked, labeled and kept within the confines of their own private property with extremely high confidence.