The price/cost of procedure should not be set so high which will hinder those who do not have enough money from accessing the operation. (Muson & Davis, 1992, p. 141) It should be affordable by everyone so that it can result to benefiting a bigger number. By physicians carrying quite a number of operations on individual it can hence result to perfection which will reduce the risks that most individuals fear encountering and this can boost their efficiency since many people will be willing to have their undesirable genetic characteristic changed or genetically engineered disease being eliminated from the body completely.
Cons Increased risks. Some ethical considerations must be initiated which will show some consideration on human gene therapy. In some countries the genetic manipulations are not ethically acceptable but this has been brought about by over estimation of risks and fair to view the benefit that individual get through therapy. Those who undergo therapy do so since their efficacy and safety is not well established. Ethical line should be established which will enable those who are affected to accept and enhance the therapy instead of problem being passed to subsequent generation.
Experiment which is carried out in germ-line gene therapy has both scientific and clinical risks which in most cases leave suspense since the outcome of therapy is not well known whether it will be successful or fail which can hence leave the patient unsatisfied. • Therapy can alter many traits in human which in some ways are usually associated with the disease and hence if important traits are altered it can result to social discrimination. • Therapy has to be perfected first by involving research on embryo and the effect can be portrayed on future generation whereby the offspring are the one’s who portrays the new genes.
• Therapy is quite expensive and this makes some of the individuals who require it not to afford or can result to a lot of expenditure and afterwards it either fail or bring about alteration of other genes. • The therapy can be viewed as violator of future generations rights since they will inherit genes which have been violated without their own will. When germ line cells are genetically modified, the consequential results do not only affect the individual with the cells which have been altered, but they also affect the offspring who will hence inherit genetic modification which can be passed on subsequently throughout the generations.
When the issue of germ line therapy is not morally accepted, it would mean that the individual has been denied the rights of modifying their genetic constitution early in life. It’s anticipated that the issue of therapy will be morally acceptable in future which will improve the life of many. Before the therapy can be morally acceptable, individuals should consider extent of technology which is developed for engineering the germ line.
The procedures can also be used to treat diseases which are based on genetic enhancement (Caplan, 1992, p.154). Poor traits The negative aspect of therapy should also be considered so that a conclusive argument can be drafted on whether or not the therapy should be accepted or whether it’s of ethical concern. The outcome of therapy can result to unanticipated result whereby genes that were normal are altered and result to poor trait manifesting to someone who was to be born as a normal individual. (Wilmut & Mycock 1997. ). This trait can result to one being disabled or other.
Therefore, these negative aspects portrayed in a result of therapy can discourage so many individuals who would want to modify there genes or else eliminate the ‘bad’ genes that they are aware that they will end up affecting their future generation. Effects on the unborn. In evaluation of negative aspects of therapy, genes therapy in the case of germ line affects the unborn (Curren, 1989, p 26). This can result to genes being altered which can portray some characteristics in individuals which were not meant to.
For example, the issue of conjoined twins can be contributed by the issue of germ line gene therapy whereby, the genes which are incorporated or interchanged with the unworthy ones causes these form of abnormalities. Conjoined twins can result when the cells which are fertilized do not differentiate fully and therefore two individuals end up utilizing the same organs. Moral dilemma in separation of conjoined twins can come up when the incidence of joining of twins is contributed by parent when they decide that germ cells need to first undergo therapy in vitro.
The parents will be feeling guilty since they will value themselves as the mere cause of joining of their children and therefore they usually find it hard to accept death of one of the child in the course of their separation. (Steel et al. , 1996, p. 805) But on the other hand, there are some genes which could have caused worse problems and therefore it leaves to choice than to evaluate the ethical standards of therapy which I think it’s quite important in reducing disease conditions which are inherited.