According to an Associated Press news article, almost half of the US fertility clinics that offer embryo screening allow couples to choose the sex of their child. Usually the screening is used to keep a child from being passed deadly genetic diseases.
Some think the practice is gearing Americans towards the wanting of 'designer babies' in which they try obtain certain desirable traits they may not have otherwise been given the natural way.
What are your opinions on this please.
2006-09-21 11:07:57 · 29 answers · asked by genaddt 7 in Society & Culture ➔ Religion & Spirituality
As much as I would agree that in an ideal world this would be a good thing, it's just too open for abuse by those who would want to take it one step further and eliminate all genes that would cause future health problems; engineer better, the genes responsible for heightened intelligence, strength, stamina and so forth, creating a distinct elite of people and disregarding those without the means to pay for such treatment.
Hmm, sounds like a film...
:)
2006-09-21 11:28:20 · answer #1 · answered by googlywotsit 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It can almost be done today with the technical advances being made in fertility. However, one can see a "brave new world" concept creeping in that could actually mean the end of mankind.
In the world today, baby girls are still considered waste, and are killed in parts of the world either before birth or right after. As the Chinese about the old Peking River over flowing with baby girls, because of the baby restrictions in that land. Ask parts of Africa,
even the mid and far east still practice this crime on humanity.
Now imagine the idea of choosing boy/girl...what do you think men will do. The male will always be chosen first, and then you will have much what you have today....TOO MANY MALES on the face of the earth. Read about the fact that there are two many males between the ages of 18-40....this is way you have conflicts to the magnitude that are present today and they will get worse as the become not just small terrorist groups, but huge and giant roaming men from country to country.
Its dangerous and it will cause grave problems in the future, pray it does not happened. Of that it will stop. Man can not play God as much as he has tried, he will be destroyed in the end, by his own hands.
2006-09-21 11:19:33 · answer #2 · answered by kickinupfunf 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
oh my goodness! I knew it was just a matter of time. I guess when so many don't believe in God they try to be God. Every child is such a sweet blessing. It's like in China when it was lawed because of overpopulation that only one child be born to each family. Women were and still are as far as I know terminating pregnancies that the babies were female. Up to 5 months pregnancy! Now there is not enough women to go around. That's what happens when you mess with God's perfect plan. It is so sad. I know families full of girls that only want a boy and vice versa. The implications that the other children are worthless is heartbreaking.
2006-09-21 11:23:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no no no no no!!! It's way too much like playing God. I understand and support genetic screening if it can save lives and health, but I do not like it at all when it becomes a way to design your child.
Nature is a pretty danged good designer all on her own, don't you think? It's too much like breeding dogs or cats and look where THAT has gotten these poor animals. You have pure breeds so pure that they have a ton of defects from what amounts to inbreeding.
And what scares me the most - what if a couple decides to terminate a pregnancy because this dislike what the genetic profile shows - gender, eye/hair/skin color, or even one day "not smart enough." In my eyes this borders on genocide.
2006-09-21 11:13:56 · answer #4 · answered by Church Music Girl 6 · 0⤊ 1⤋
Truthfully, I see no problem with it. People only want the best for their children, and this is a way in which to get the best for them. Besides, I know of families who continually try for a child that's of a certain sex. It would be quite nice for these families to not dump extra children in the world in their search for familial balance.
2006-09-21 11:52:04 · answer #5 · answered by Bastet's kitten 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would have done anything to have a daughter. I raised two step sons and really wanted a girl. I knew I would only have one child. I think its great that we can choose. If it rids the world of some deadly genetic diseases great. Some parents suffer horribly watching a child suffer or die. Who doesn't want an intelligent child free of dibilitating diseases.
2006-09-21 11:12:58 · answer #6 · answered by bramblerock 5 · 2⤊ 1⤋
I think it is becoming dangerus. I can understand wonting to save babys from MS or other inherited desieses but before we know it they ciould be testing for abesity jeans and dependancy geans I heard manic deprestion is in the genes so that could be nest I say saver not to medle with fetses
2006-09-21 11:16:03 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
gee thats a tricky one women given a call between intercourse, funds and toddler would extra desirable than probable choose funds in the event that they dont have young ones already. yet once you have a toddler already your answer is going to be your toddler. it relies upon on the place you're in life. incredibly thats how that query is replied. yet maximum women will agree that intercourse isn't precedence above funds and young ones.
2016-10-01 05:36:36 · answer #8 · answered by vishvanath 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I chose my baby's sex through other more old fashioned methods 30 years ago but it worked. I got the girl I wanted.
2006-09-21 11:18:00 · answer #9 · answered by a_delphic_oracle 6 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I would like to choose yes, but i wouldnt do it if thats the only way. id hate to get a boy who was going to be a girl and starts likeing other boys cause he still holds some traits.
2006-09-21 11:15:30 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋