From today's home kits to the tedious fertility planning calendars of last year, couples have tried for centuries to choose the genders of their children. Most couples, it seems, would pick the sex of their children if they had the option.
In countries like China, couples feel more pressure because of birth limits. One recent study has shown that more than forty percent of couples worldwide would choose the sex of their child if possible. Is the ability to select a child's gender really a good thing, though?
Proponents of gender selection have a strong argument and quite a bit of support from a number of different places. Dr. Ronald Ericsson has been marketing a home test kit to help couples choose the gender of their child. As a result, …show more content…
Gender selection has finally been banned in many countries on the continents of Europe and Asia. Perhaps they realize that this practice is not only unethical and dangerous, it will eventually lead to couples wanting to create designer babies by choosing hair and eye color, levels of intelligence, and even height!
If we continue to allow gender selection, serious, dangerous problems could occur in our society. Gender selection is a powerful tool that science does not yet fully understand how to use. If we do not draw the line between wants and needs early, there will be no stopping wealthy parents in the future who want to choose all of the characteristics of their babies, which will undoubtedly create problems in the human race and promote intolerance towards others.
Although gender selection could be a negative it could also be a positive thing for example, if either of the parents carried a genetic disease that would affect a child of a specific gender they could prevent their child from getting the disease by choosing the gender in which the disease doesn't affect them. To name a couple of illnesses there is Klinefelter's syndrome which is a genetic condition that only affects males and there is Rett syndrome which is also a genetic condition but it only affect
In countries like China, couples feel more pressure because of birth limits. One recent study has shown that more than forty percent of couples worldwide would choose the sex of their child if possible. Is the ability to select a child's gender really a good thing, though?
Proponents of gender selection have a strong argument and quite a bit of support from a number of different places. Dr. Ronald Ericsson has been marketing a home test kit to help couples choose the gender of their child. As a result, …show more content…
Gender selection has finally been banned in many countries on the continents of Europe and Asia. Perhaps they realize that this practice is not only unethical and dangerous, it will eventually lead to couples wanting to create designer babies by choosing hair and eye color, levels of intelligence, and even height!
If we continue to allow gender selection, serious, dangerous problems could occur in our society. Gender selection is a powerful tool that science does not yet fully understand how to use. If we do not draw the line between wants and needs early, there will be no stopping wealthy parents in the future who want to choose all of the characteristics of their babies, which will undoubtedly create problems in the human race and promote intolerance towards others.
Although gender selection could be a negative it could also be a positive thing for example, if either of the parents carried a genetic disease that would affect a child of a specific gender they could prevent their child from getting the disease by choosing the gender in which the disease doesn't affect them. To name a couple of illnesses there is Klinefelter's syndrome which is a genetic condition that only affects males and there is Rett syndrome which is also a genetic condition but it only affect