Top fertility doctors in Britain want to lift the ban on parents choosing the sex of their babies, saying that couples have the right to pick “a pink one rather than a blue one.” From the Daily Express (UK). Link here.
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December 13th, 2007 at 6:45 pm
I’m not sure I agree with the term “designer babies” but I wish people would consider the possibility that genetics is on a grander scale. The act of choosing the sex of a single child will have a negligible effect on humanity as a whole, but if a large enough number of couples begin to do this, the male-female ratio might be altered, etc. Culture might begin to favor one gender over another and we could be in real trouble. Maybe I’m being overly cautious, but I see a potential for real danger when human preference (for certain qualities) enters the realm of something as natural as reproduction.