Parents should not be allowed to play God or Nature to choose a child's gender. Women are choosing the gender of their children for reasons such as genetic diseases, family balancing, or just wanting the choice. According to Sureau , " In the prevention of X-linked diseases, e.g. Duchenne myopathy, haemophilia, there are the following choices: (i) pre-natal diagnosis, followed by medical termination if the fetus is male or termination which is restricted to affected male fetuses; (ii) pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) with either rejection of any XY offspring, or rejection of only affected male embryos; and (iii) pre-fertilization gender selection, when medically available" (1999). In the past people did not know until they had their
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In the past, the only option was to get what you are given or to adopt to plan your family. Sidhu estimates " The average cost of a gender selection procedure at high-profile clinics is about $18,000, and an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 procedures are performed every year. Fertility doctors foresee an explosion in sex-selection procedures on the horizon, as couples become accustomed to the idea that they can pay to beget children of the gender they prefer." (Sidhu, 2012). Many organizations will not allow a family to choose their child's gender just for the purpose of family balancing, they see this as playing God or Nature and don't justify using DNA editing for this purpose. Some organizations will do the procedure if one of the parents is a carrier for a gender-related genetic disorder. The family has to meet certain criteria to qualify, they must be married and already have one child of the opposite gender. Many people see the zygote or pre-embryo as a person already and thus that we are altering the human being and changing the child's already determined gender, which can be called trying to play God. "The unpredictability of the child produced is an intrinsic feature of human reproduction" (McDougall, 2005). If a woman knows she is a carrier for a genetic disease she may have to make the choice to take a risk or not to have children or
In the past, the only option was to get what you are given or to adopt to plan your family. Sidhu estimates " The average cost of a gender selection procedure at high-profile clinics is about $18,000, and an estimated 4,000 to 6,000 procedures are performed every year. Fertility doctors foresee an explosion in sex-selection procedures on the horizon, as couples become accustomed to the idea that they can pay to beget children of the gender they prefer." (Sidhu, 2012). Many organizations will not allow a family to choose their child's gender just for the purpose of family balancing, they see this as playing God or Nature and don't justify using DNA editing for this purpose. Some organizations will do the procedure if one of the parents is a carrier for a gender-related genetic disorder. The family has to meet certain criteria to qualify, they must be married and already have one child of the opposite gender. Many people see the zygote or pre-embryo as a person already and thus that we are altering the human being and changing the child's already determined gender, which can be called trying to play God. "The unpredictability of the child produced is an intrinsic feature of human reproduction" (McDougall, 2005). If a woman knows she is a carrier for a genetic disease she may have to make the choice to take a risk or not to have children or