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IFV parents "should be able to choose the sex of their child"
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Couples undergoing IVF could be allowed to select the sex of their baby under proposals put forward by MPs.
A controversial Commons Science and Technology Committee report said more decisions on fertility treatment should be made by patients and their doctors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/4376041.stm
For or against?
Being able to choose the sex of the child does seem like a first step towards 'designer babies' to me. On the other hand, it should not necessarily mean that it would lead towards that and we'd end up being able- or allowed- to choose eyes and hair colour as if were at our local car dealership. Lines can be drawn.
Then again, is the sex of a child so important? Would this mean that some people would choose boys over girls, for various background reasons?
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I dont really see it as a 'step too far' I just think its something that should be up to fate, you choose to be a parent then you choose to take the risks that go with that.
It simply enforces the views of parents as owners and the child as a commodity.
Furthermore it could be dangerous in a demographic sense, maybe not so much now, but maybe in the future or in certain susections of society......
Personally i see clear dengers and almost no positives, so what is the point?
I am also guessing that such procedures would cost money, time and effort which could almost certainly be better directed elsewhere.....
You either want a child, or you don't IMHO. The sex shouldn't be an issue.
However, we do allow gender checks where there is a genetic disorder affecting one gender...
Hugely dangerous if certain countries start using it; where boys are considered much more desirable than girls, we could end up with a total population crash.....
In china, apparently, they sometimes neglect girls to death because boys are so much more desirable and its one child per family. The statistics prove this:
As you can see, the infant mortality rates for girls are a lot higher (deaths per 1000 births, by the way). Although this could be just random, I think it is significant statistical evidence when there is so wide a difference, especailly in a coutnry like China where there are thousands of people to 'average it out'
yes but china sucks at many things, not just the oppression of life
The world, everything, runs like a river following its natural course. If we decide to build dams of unnatural legislation, the river will still flow, it will just find another course, that perhaps wont be the most natural flow.
is becoming a word i dislike.
it is becoming to mean selfish in my wee brain.
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Who says age doesn't bring wisdom?
knobs no matter how stable our economy is i want to vote these cunts ot of power
even in terms of sheer pragmatism choosing a boy or girl doesnt help
argh im goin to move soon, luby help me :$
yes how does that affect social reasons for having a boy/girl
There is another kind?
its the chromosome the sperm is carrying which determines the sex - boy sperms and girl sperms.
i don't agree with selection of a boy or girl coz you have one preference, but if its between an ill child or a healthy one through sperm selection then i can understand why it would be done.