gender selection now a multi-million dollar industry
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| Mon, 09-17-2012 - 2:41pm |
What do you think about this? According to the article, it's girls most parents are desperate for, rather than boys.
In some circumstances I can see the logic in this. For example, I have a good friend whose son has Barth Syndrome. He had a heart transplant at 18 months old. While women/girls can be CARRIERS, only an actual male can have BS. My friend is a carrier, if they had another son, he would likely suffer from this condition as well. If they had a girl, it would be all good. Long story short, her son is an only child and will remain so. Since there is no way to "guarantee" a girl, and they don't want another child going through the hell their son has, they decided to stick with just one kid.
I also have a friend who I could have seen doing this, had she had the money. She has six boys - two stepsons she has raised, four biological she gave birth too. She desperately wanted a girl each and every time she was pregnant. She adores all her kids, is an AMAZING mom, but yeah - I could see her doing this at one time.
I was suprised no one mentioned autism as a risk factor, since girls are much less likely to be autistic. (Except in my case, my daughter has ASD and my son is the "normal" one.)
What are your thoughts? Would you have ever done something like this, or would you judge someone else who did it? (I have to admit, as pro-choice as I am, I think abortion for gender selection is reprehensible!)
Angie
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 No I would not have done it. Although some think the reason I have three children is because I was trying for a boy. It is absolutely not true.
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I can understand wanting to use such a method if you have a severe genetic disease that is only passed on to one sex - but every time we tamper with embryos (After fertilization and three days of incubation, an embryologist uses a laser to cut a hole through an embryo’s protective membrane and then picks out one of the eight cells) we don't really know the long-term results.
For myself, I could not do it.
Another thought... ( If they had a girl, it would be all good.) But would they consider that it would not all be good? This girl child could be a carrier, and she will have to live with making the choice of gender selection for her own children, or taking the risk of having a son with a genetic disease?
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<<<In my experience people who are pro choice support all choice,Now you may not and certainly are not required to agree with every choice but to say abortion for gender selection is reprehensible?
Hmm it causes me to wonder why it is that you stray into certain choices and reasons for those choices being okay and some not. If you agree a woman has the right to do as she pleases with her body then it seems to me that whatever reason that may present itself is indeed a CHOICE and if you are pro choice you would support every woman's right to it. When we start defining what is and is not okay then we tend to weaken our argument for being pro choice and admit that in some way our support indeed our philosophy of choice is somehow flawed.
I'm pro choice and I just can't have that argument.
just seems a bit odd to me.>>>>
I support any woman's right to terminate a pregnancy. I am adamant that abortion should remain safe and legal. It doesn't mean I have to agree with her reasons, and I personally find this one rather appalling. It doesn't seem "odd" to me, at all. As long as I support her RIGHT TO CHOOSE TO DO IT, how does that make me any less pro-choice?
AngieÂ
.<<< I personally think there is a moral difference between killing a fetus because if has Tay-Sachs and killing one because it has a penis. I am also not in favor of legally preventing people from deciding to kill a fetus because it has a penis attached, but it doesn't mean I think that person made a morally-defensible choice. >>>>
Exactly! Being pro-choice means supporting their right to choose. Which we do.
Angie
<<<Another thought... ( If they had a girl, it would be all good.) But would they consider that it would not all be good? This girl child could be a carrier, and she will have to live with making the choice of gender selection for her own children, or taking the risk of having a son with a genetic disease?>>>
I honestly don't know if they thought that far in advance. You're absolutely right - although, maybe by that time in the future, medicine will have figured out something by then? In any case, they seem pretty at peace with their decision.
Angie
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