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Should parents be allowed to use the latest reproductive technologies to choose the gender of their children?

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1. 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!
2. i think there are some lines that just shouldn't be crossed that is just going too far, IMHO
3. 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)
4. No. We've messed around with nature enough as it is..we should be happy with what's given to us.
5. 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.
6. NO.
7. 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.
8. No way.. Man has no right in interfering with divine choices!!!
9. 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.