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Biotechnological advancement has been primarily focused on the improvement of life. A relatively new field is that of genetic engineering, which when introduced in the 1970’s caused much controversy. The potential to avoid life-altering illnesses before or during a person’s life gives praise to the new field, but still raises ethical questions. The idea of gene therapy has undoubtedly become the savior for many, but with this knowledge can come problems with its “god-like” power. Genetic engineering could be used to create children that would have the best of everything and perhaps no flaw whatsoever. This idea of the “perfect” child has raised the question of how far do we go using genetic engineering, but first we need to know how exactly gene therapy works. First off genes are a segment of DNA that encode instructions on how to make proteins. Genes use chemical messages that instruct the cell to perform its functions by making either special proteins or enzymes. A genetically mutated gene contains a fault that disrupts the transfer of the gene message to its protein equivalent (5). A fault in a gene can occur spontaneously or can simply be passed on from mother/father to son/daughter (4). These genetic muta