Should parents be able to select the sex of their children using genetic testing?
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I think that is utterly wrong. I do'nt understand why anyone would want to do that. I thinnk that God created us a certain gender for a reason--we were not meant to hoose the genders
THIS IS SOOOOOOOO WRONG IN EVERY WAY!!!!!!!!!
LET NATURE TAKE ITS COURSE!!!!!!! YOUR BABY IS THE WAY GOD INTENDED IT TO BE , DONT CHANGE THATWHY DOES IT MATTER WHETHER ITS A BOY OR GIRL IF YOU CARE THAT MUCH MABYE YOURE NOT FIT TO BE PARENTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I dont agree with it but thats just me everybody has there own oppion and i dont think it should be a big issue because if you dont think its right then dont do it but some people may want to so you can atleast have the option open if you want to.
Parents should not have the right to play God over their childrens lives and they should let nature take its course.
I dont think you should be able to pick the sex of your child, because people in rural countries will all want bays, and theree will not be enought girls to go around.
i think babies shouldnt be designed because we are all speciall in our own individual ways. if we were all designed to be perfect, we would all be the same and it would be a dull world
I think this is truely disgusting. A child should grow up as it was intended to. It's completely unethical to chose how a child looks, just because you're too selfish to realize that your child will never be that, your child. When you alter a beings sex, or other things, as it's appearance for that matter, it's unfair to the child to live the life of someone who isn't really supposed to be alive.
ummmmmmmmmm nooooooooooooooooooooo sex selection is wrong and picking your kids sex is shifting around the male to female ratio!! GESE..wats this world coming to???
its gods decision
i think half and half. i mean if a parents really want a boy. but i think that there could be problems too. what if something went wrong, and the boy u were so hoping for turned out to be a girl. now honestly u would be really disapointed. good parents wouldnt care, but they might down the line. i mean would you really want your parnts hating you because of your gender?
i like the idea, and then agian i dont.
people should not be able to pick out the sex of their unborn child because of population control. what if everyone all of a sudden wants boys? then we would have a generation with a shortage of girls. the reason we can't pick the sex of our children is more for the purpose of mother nature and to maintain an our delicate equilibrium. balance is everything. if we were to throw the boy girl ratio off balance then everything else would shortly be thrown off balance after.
during baby boom times my grandparents tried to have a boy because the one boy they did have died in the war. They ended up having 14 girls and once my grandma hit menopause my grandfather committed suicide. if this technology was around back then maybe i would have known him.
they have no right to pick there gender they are no god and its a miracle anyway if its a boy or girl it shouldnt matter if its wat you dont want it to be its in your life and it shoyld be loved the same
i guess it doesn't really matter because you are not giving birth to a baby and then changing its gender to your likings. either way, its let random probibility determine the gender or push that probability to lean more towards the gender that you want more.
but if you, a parent, are willing to do this genetic testing regardless of the harmful side affects to your baby, just because you favor a gender more than the other, then you should really rethink if you should be a parent.
The vast majority of parents using this option are selecting one sex over the other because they have a history of severely debilitating or fatal sex-linked genetic diseases in their families. They opt for the testing to improve the odds of having a healthy baby, not in spite of harmful side effects.
You're right: there are no guarantees. But this is a way to improve the odds.
Thousands of children have been born after their parents used the procedure, and so far it doesn't seem linked to adverse outcomes for the kids.
so i should not give this, my child, a chance if i cannot control its gender or mess with its genes in some way to benefit me and my ideas/ideals? yep, lets all go and have babies with that line of thought.
as if choosing a biological sex for the child will really matter, when the child grows up and decides which sexuality-orient it wants to be. Look, you the parents didn't choose your sex did you! so if you can't have a child without genetically controlling its genders then do not have one. doesn't one have a child for the sake of having a child and reproduction of future generation? i think that in itself is a lame reason too, to try to keep your genes living for the future...but what gives one the right to choose another's gender, no matter if it is their own child...what's next, intellegience of a child, hair color, eye color....why not just a total sims way of creating our own child from a selection of parts, huh.
just because you create a life, a baby, does not give you the power over its life and determination of what is worthy to be a human, including gender selection.
I think NOT!!!! what if there are really bad side effects to you picking out the sex of your child? What if it still is not what you wanted?What if god decides I don't care if you want a girl and payed alot of money for it, I am giving you a BOY then what happens?? What you put a wig on your child because its your property?? We should focus on less shallow things like diseases and helping the planet instead of trying to pick out the sex of our children. That is the choice of mother nature and there is a reason why you have what you have. Your unwanted son could be the person to come up with the cure for aids or someone very important.
not all of america believes in god so to extend something for the whole nation just because its wrong to one religion is fascist and incredibly ignorant. I'm sure you christians wouldnt want a muslim to enforce any laws that went againts your beliefs, am i right? Its the same thing if you try to do it to people who dont beleive in what you believe in. So by says its god's choice is an invalid arguement.
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hek felores i thank people shouldnt be able to decide wether or not there child is boy/girl because it ant there choice its gods. so leave it at that....
for all the people that say it is right i think your wrong because god meant it to be one way and if you agree to have a baby you should be prepared for anything
Consider this: Did god give us the knowledge on how to do the science that allows us to select the sex of a baby? If so, maybe he wants us to be involved in making those decisions.
Right i don't no if it's actually possible to be able to choose the gender of your child but lets be logic here. Say you do go choose the gender of your child who says that the majority of people won't all going to pick lets say for argument sake a boy? Were going to have a problem here because we also need girls to keep the world going. Basically the world would end and this would cause BIG VEIR BIG PROBLEM. (:
If you want to decide if you have a girl or a boy then you should not be having babies
you can't prove that it was god's plan... and if he even exists, what do you think he's gonna do? get pissed off and kill us all? well, news flash... people have been choosing the sex of their babies for years and nothing yet. there's no real harm in doing this... personally i would never do it myself, but i can understand why some couples would. i just don't see why people even care...
People should not choose the gender of their child. That person who said that if God didnot want people to choose their child'a gender, he (god) would not give man the knowledge to create such technology has his/her wire crossed. Well, i suppose then that God gave man the knowledge to create guns and weapon of mass distruction because he wanted man to destroy the earth and kill each other. Am i also to assume that everything bad that has happen because of man is because God put the ideas in their head? We are given choices in life, gender selection is one bad choice unless it is to prevent a disease.
right now there is cosmetic surgery, gender change operations, etc but at least with these options people get to decide for THEMSELVES. i would let nature take it's course and be a parent, a parent who accepts their child no matter what gender they are male or female. but at least knowing that i would give life to a natural newborn would be great, and a nice surprise at that.
and another thought that i have....
what if you naturally were to have a girl and you switched to a boy and when he grows up he has female attributes without knowing why. would he turn out to be gay? or if it was a boy changed to a girl, would she become a lesbian? we don't know
People who use preimplantation genetic testing are NOT changing an embryo's sex.
They are using in vitro fertilization, in which sperm and egg meet outside the body, then looking at each resulting embryo and implanting only those of the desired sex.
mabye becuse it all depends on your religion. but the answer is no. be grateful for what you have not what you want
no. don't played god
hahaha no
no i do not think people should decide the sex of their children. I dont believe in God but i do believe that as said before people should love their children no matter what not depending on what sex they are. Also, if you have had 4 children of the same sex (as an example) instead of altering what their life would be like based on your desision ADOPT.
I CANT BELIEVE THIS!! THIS IS WRONG.. SICK!! if your going to choose the sex of your child your just expecting TOO much!! DISGRACE!!! it really DOESNT matter what the sex is!! they are still your child no matter what!!!
OMG!! I DONT KNOW WHAT YOUR TALKING ABOUT!! U SOOOOOOO CANT CHOOSE THE SEX OF YOUR CHILD ITS WRONG BAD ND ELK!!! U FREAKS!!!
i think that the only circumstances that a parent should be able to choose the gender of their child is if they have a sex linked disease!!! Under no circumstances should they be able to change physical features of the child!!!
yes they should
yes!..to be able to control the number of children you want to have seeking for the right gender
everyone is unique no one in the world should be able to deside who you are going to be or how smart you are going to be ect. Let destiny or nature take its corase some part od being a parent is seeing your child grow up to be their own person not knowing exactly what your kid is going to grow up to be. THats god's job and everyone wants their kid to be perfect but everykid was the same the world would not function proberally.
Parents shouldnt be able to choose their own child. its all in GODS plan so dont mess with it cuz GOD will mess with you!!!
No way! That shouldn't be allowed! If we do this, then maybe in a decade or something parents who can't afford it won't love their kids because they didn't gt to pick like other people.
God has a plan for everyone, and it is God's decision as to what sex your child will be. We should put our faith and trust into God and know that he will always decide on what is right for us.
WELL NO IT WOULD BE JUST SICK IN THE PROCESS FOR BOTH GENDERS!
i think that god should pick your sex
I think that if you cannot have children naturally yous should adopt but you should never ever try to play god. That is what these doctors are trying to do when they make these test tube babies. I think every person even babies have the right to live their own life by inserting these thing parents can make the perfect kid but there is only one problem with that there is no such thing as perfect.
this isnt burger king...u cant always have it ur way!
LOOK PEOPLE DONT PUT GOD INTO THIS CONVERSATION!! AND SECOND IS THAT PARENTS SHOULD LOVE THE BABY THE SAME SICK OR HEALTHY ITS STILL THE CHILD YOU WERE SUPER LUCKY TO BRING TO EARTH.THIRD,IF PARETS WHANT TO PICK THE BABIES ENES FOR ME ITS SHOWING THAT PARENTS ARE NOT OR WILL NOT ACCEPT THE BABY IT WILL BE AND THATS JUST NOT RIGHT.FOURTH,IT WILL ALSO BE NICE TO SEE YOUR BABY INHERIT LOOKS AND TRAITS FROM THE FAMILY AND THAT WONT HAPPEN IF YOU PLAY WITH YOUR CHILDS BODY LIKE A TOY.AND FIFTH,PEOPLE CAN CONFUSE THE BABY FOR SOMEONE ELSES AND THE BADEST IS THAT PEOPLE WONT KNOW THAT THAT ISNT EVEN YOUR BABY!!!! PEOPLE OUT THERE THINK ABOUT IT AND DONT MISS THE BEUTIFUL OPPORTUNITY OF JUST WATCHING YOUR CHILD GROW NATURALY. THANK YOU ALL.
no! wut happenz when we"re faced with the delemma of having many more males than females because no one wants girls
I think that if you could choose the sex or your child it would ba a dizaster because if there were too many of one sex and not of the other there would soon be no more humans.
i think you should be able to pick the sex of your baby because hes your baby and its what you want. and its not like your going to change the way god made your baby.
WE are in biology and we have to rite a paper on this i have already had a little baby and i didnt want to know the sex of it i wanted it to be a suprise
We think it should be a suprise
i dont belive in the whole god thing but
if god wanted everyone it pick the sex of the child then it woul dhave been like that ever since the start so i think because god wanted it like that and thats how it should stay