The Boston University School of Law hosted its annual American Journal of Law and Medicine Symposium, titled “Emerging Issues in Bioethics,” on Friday, featuring experts in law and healthcare from across the country who discussed a range of topics relevant to today’s advancements in medicine.

If having a child meant hurting them, how far would people go to fix it? Science has known for a long time that everything a living being is boils down to long sequences encoded in DNA, passed down...