2006-07-11 04:52:29 · 9 answers · asked by Yorkey 2 in Science & Mathematics ➔ Engineering
Gender selection is becoming increasingly available and is potentially a major medical and ethical problem.
In my view gender selection should ONLY be used where a child of one sex is likely to be born with a gender-specific disease or abnormality (a problem that only effects one gender). The suffering of that child could be prevented simply by selecting a child of the opposite gender.
In exceptional circumstances I also think gender selection is acceptable where a child of a selected gender could be born so that s/he could assist in the treatment of another member of the same family.
There was a case recently in the UK where the parents won the right to select a boy who was free from a particular inherited disease so that when he was born his bone marrow could be used to treat his older brother who had that disease. I believe this is acceptable because a life was being saved AND another created for reasons of love and compassion.
What I think is wrong is selecting the gender of a child simply because a particular culture favours one gender over another, such as in China where thousands of female foetuses are aborted every year simply because they are female. Being female is not a disease and gender selection should not be permitted just because the parents or society prefer one gender over another.
I believe that gender selection for purely social reasons is morally wrong and if permitted may also cause problems because of the imbalance in the numbers of adult males and females.
2006-07-11 05:07:54 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Should someone be allowed to stop them?
If so, who? The state? The AMA?
My answer is that no one should be allowed to prevent by force, parents from using that technology.
2006-07-11 06:34:09 · answer #2 · answered by enginerd 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, that messin around with natural selection. If parents begin to do that, our ecosystem will in time become unbalanced because there will be more males then females, or vice versa!
2006-07-11 04:56:16 · answer #3 · answered by anom 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think they shouldn't. You might regret your decision later on in life. It tampering with God's plan for you, yourself and your family.
Besides you can adopt and pick the gender if you really wanted to.
2006-07-15 03:40:37 · answer #4 · answered by chariot804 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No, because there will be an unbalanced population of males vs females, which would lead to high rate of bachlors/bachlorettes which would lead to high rate of crime (rape, prostitution) and higher rate of STDs(like we need anymore of those)
2006-07-11 05:01:16 · answer #5 · answered by starnecklace331 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No. We've messed around with nature enough as it is..we should be happy with what's given to us.
2006-07-11 05:03:41 · answer #6 · answered by Angela 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
No way.. Man has no right in interfering with divine choices!!!
2006-07-11 19:08:45 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
i think there are some lines that just shouldn't be crossed
that is just going too far, IMHO
2006-07-11 04:59:02 · answer #8 · answered by jenzen25 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
NO.
2006-07-11 05:49:39 · answer #9 · answered by sures 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋