

Abortions are also in utero. And it’s not the choice of the child to be born either. Or a lot of the choices guardians make in stead of their children. Legally and ethically this shouldn’t be something you can stop them from choosing, even if I’m personally against such modifications for the reasons you’re probably thinking of too. If you say “we should stop gene modifications to prevent the loss of gene diversity risking great public health concern for our population”, that is also eugenics.
I’m inclined to agree with your presumption of idiocy instead of malice; that the driver just didn’t know the connotations of “Lolita”. Yet the word still makes parents think their kids are being preyed on all the same. I’m not judging that this is what the driver meant to do, but it is something that would make parents not trust the bus and harm the children forced either to wake early and walk to school or contribute to the emissions in their air.
It’s still possible the driver is given a second chance at bus driving. And in the worst case I doubt the driver would not be able to find employment in public transportation.