Jim Sharkey wrote:
Dan Minette wrote:
Let's also assume that it rarely was used to get all boys or all
girls, that most families who used it picked a girl if they had a
boy and a boy if they had a girl. Why would this be such a
significant problem that the government had to ban it?
Certainly in *this* country, that would be the case. Most families
that I know with all boys would like their next child to be a girl,
and vice-versa. I think the problem lies in that many of the sex-
choice tourists (for lack of a better term) are not making their
choice based on some paradigm of, well, balancing out the family
ledger, so to speak. I think a majority of them are coming here
specifically to have a baby of a specific sex because that sex is
"better" than the other one.
I personally am repelled by the idea of choosing a baby's sex. I
don't see it as a practice that needs banning, but I do see where the
logical next step is "Why can't my baby be blond, or tall, or any
number of other more desirable traits?" and I can further see why
some people want to nip it in the bud, right or wrong. My question
is, at what point would the possible practice of "tinkering" with
one's progeny before they're even conceived be banned?
I also wonder, if such tinkering becomes viable, does it have the
possibility of damaging an egalitarian society?
Jim
The couple in this case thinks they have a good reason for sex selection:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live/articles/news/news.html?in_article_id=391264&in_page_id=1770&ct=5
I don't think that.
Julia
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