No one seriously objects to these clinical trials. There will be issues of access and who can afford it. Whether the social wealthy class will have the intellectual advantage over poor people, these are real questions coming down the road. Others have gone further. Yet in other contexts society has already come to terms with these issues, if not completely resolved them.
People frequently enhance their appearance or health through the use of other medical technology.
Drugs are frequently employed to treat such relatively trivial conditions as modest obesity, stuffy noses, age spots and baldness. Gene therapy is simply part of a continuum of therapies that introduce or modify DNA or modulate genes' activity. Transplanted organs are a source of normal genes, which in turn synthesize functional levels of an enzyme or other substance that is deficient because of genetic disease. Common practice includes lung transplantation for cystic fibrosis and bone-marrow transplantation for severe immune deficiencies. Being inoculated results in irreversible changes in blood cells' DNA, initiating the synthesis of mediating antibodies.