Personal Narrative: The Ethics Of Gene Therapy

The Ethics of Gene Therapy
Genes are the basic physical and functional units of heredity. Genes are specific sequences of bases that encode instructions on how to make proteins, and even though genes are what people normally pay attention to, it’s the proteins that perform most life functions and make up the majority of cellular structures. When genes are altered so that the encoded proteins are unable to carry out their normal functions, genetic disorders occur. Gene therapy is a technique for correcting those defective genes responsible for the disorders. Gene therapy can be done through many ways: a normal gene may be inserted into a nonspecific location within the genome to replace a nonfunctional gene, an abnormal gene could be swapped
I see so many possibilities for the future of gene therapy. I hope that gene therapy’s flaws will be fixed, and it will eventually be approved. And if it does get approved, I think that there would be fewer diseases in the future. And on that topic, I think that this could be a huge advancement in the search for a cure for lupus. Because right now there isn’t a cure but gene therapy could help with that and that would help me and millions of other people.
I would like to know more about it whether or gene therapy can have different side effects, and if a person has to be really healthy in order for it to work best or if it will work the same no matter what. I feel that the healthier the person, the more likely gene therapy will work, but then that brings up a problem because if people are healthy they won’t need gene therapy, so gene therapy would then be pointless. This is probably one of my biggest questions at the moment, but I really like this topic and I hope I can learn more about it in the near