Since this pioneering effort, there have been many other instances of human implementation of gene therapy. It is obvious that technological questions in this area are being answered very rapidly. However, the ethical questions that have arisen as a result of the technology are not being answered quite so readily. Until the development of this technology, people have had to deal with genetic inequality as a fact of life. With the advent of gene therapy, this may no longer be the case for some people.
Most people feel that it is okay to use gene therapy to treat human genetic diseases.
Somewhat surprisingly, even the Catholic Church has taken a stand for the use of gene therapy. I think you'd do just about anything. Because many people are concerned about the safety of gene therapy, a special committee of the National Academy of Science was created to look into the consequences of releasing rDNA engineered organisms into the environment. However, John Fagan, a professor of molecular biology at Maharishi International University in Fairfield, Iowa, is highly concerned about the fact that very little is known about the long term effects of the existence of genetically engineered organisms in the environment. His underlying concern is that an engineering mishap with devastating effects does not occur as a result of carelessness and or lack of precaution.