In defence of South Africa’s National Health Research Ethics Council guidelines on heritable human genome editing Authors Sheetal Soni (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6678-6008) Julian Kinderlerer (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0481-0441) Larisse Prinsen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0931-4586) Donrich Willem Thaldar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7346-3490) Ntokozo Mnyandu (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-2576-7980) Marietjie Botes Institutions University of Cape Town (ZA) University of the Witwatersrand (ZA) Stellenbosch University (ZA) University of the Free State (ZA) University of KwaZulu-Natal (ZA) Explore the Global Research Space Interactive Map