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Ethical
Issues on Gender Selection |
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There are three core motivations
for engaging in sex determination and sex selection:
Medical reasons
- such as preventing the birth of children affected
or at risk of X-linked disorders.
Family balancing reasons - here
couples choose to have a child of one sex because
they already have one or more children of the other
sex.
Gender preference reasons - often
in favour of male offspring stemming from cultural,
social, and economic bias in favour of
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result of policies requiring couples to limit reproduction
to one child, as in China.
Some people believe that sex selection for non-medical reasons
raises serious moral, legal, and social issues. The principal
concerns are that the practice of sex selection will
1. distort the natural sex ratio leading
to a gender imbalance and
2. reinforce discriminatory and sexist
stereotypes towards women by devaluing females.
Other people think that it could be unethical only to
offer a method of sperm sorting to select the sex of the
baby.
On the other hand, some people are really concerned in what
they consider the illegal art of discarding "potential
babies" or the unnecessary creation of more embryos
for fertility treatments than is needed. In fact, the statements
of such ethicist dueling make an individual an "ethicist"
agreeing and disagreeing with any of them.
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Since there is no career or training to become
a "professional" in ethics, this is
more likely a moral matter based on each individual's
information about the facts involved with gender
selection. Perhaps a decision may defer to that
coming from an ethicist, but how can someone
know whether a person can qualify as expert
or authority in ethics?
Accepting gender selection should be the equivalent
of freedom of speech, if it works for a couple
they should not be concerned about society and
society should not discriminate any child, or
label them as "designer babies". Upon
the creation of ethical guidelines in gender
selection, nobody has enough authority to say
what is acceptable and what is not. |
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