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Gene therapy is a approach to treating diseases by modifying a person's genes toward a therapeutic goal. Gene therapy is being researched for its possible use as not only a treatment for the diseases a certain patient already has, but also for its possibility to prevent the formation of diseases altogether. The premise of gene therapy is based on correcting a disease at its root; fixing the abnormal genes that appear to lead to certain …

…the rich and elite in order to serve the already self perpetuating system. Could not a division form between man, separating those engineered, and those natural? Unless we wish to live in a world that is controlled more by scientists than personal free will and desire, the world must draw a definite and unyielding line between somatic cell gene therapy and germline gene therapy, and strongly support the primary, and denounce and attack the latter.