I totally agree with you and like i wrote, the discussion of the technology is a direct cause of more deaths in the way that it suppresses a superior technology.
No matter my or your opinion, if the public is strongly against something, even a helpful technology, it will take longer to get accepted.
One good example is Golden rice. Even though we have had the technology to grow rice containing Vitamin A (Vit A deficiency causes blindness in millions of people worldwide), it has been suppressed by people with emotional arguments and none-scientific world-views.