Choosing the Sex

[Dante]

More and more couples are choosing the sex of their unborn child, Do you think they should have the right to do that or should they just let things progress naturally?

[Bobby]

I think people should let nature take its course. Because other wise the world could end up with a large imbalance of males, and females.

[Phantom]

what do you mean choosing? do they take a drug or somthing.

[0=]

I think it's wrong, but I also think they shhould have a choice about the sex at least, I'm opposed to altering the genetics so much that they can choose what the child will look like.

[Grotesque]

More and more couples are choosing the sex of their unborn child, Do you think they should have the right to do that or should they just let things progress naturally?

no, thats gross

[Whisper]

no i would NEVER do that
EVER
thats just flat out wrong

[cmpcmp]

i think that it is against the balance of nature that has been eestablished over thousands of years and it would be dangerous to mess with.

Just curious, any body for abortion but against choosing sex?

[mRojas2000]

I don't know how is possible, but I wouldn't like to choose my child's sex... I would rather KNOW what sex its going to be before, but noc CHOOSE the sex...

[Hyper]

Humankind shouldnt play god.. So no I wouldnt do it its not natural its inhuman

[cmpcmp]

MicroSort
What it is
A dye technique that attempts to segregate girl-producing sperm from the boy-producing variety. Sperm of the desired gender is inserted directly into your uterus, usually via artificial insemination (AI).

Effectiveness
The method is about 90 percent successful when it comes to choosing girls and about 74 percent successful for boys. These rates are per pregnancy, not per cycle.

How it's done
MicroSort is based on the premise that girl-producing sperm, which carry X chromosomes, are bigger than the boy-producing sperm, which carry Y chromosomes. The procedure involves coloring a sperm sample with fluorescent dye and then zapping it with a laser that illuminates the dye. The bigger X chromosomes absorb more dye and glow brighter than the Y ones. Sperm are then sorted by supposed gender and the preferred sex is transferred to the uterus, usually via AI. In some cases in vitro fertilization (IVF) is used — which may increase the likelihood of a pregnancy but is also more invasive and expensive
yes it can be, and is done. The other way is to use IVF geneticly figure out if it is male or female AFTER CONCEPTION and then kill it, or use it. (abortion?)

[xTheLordsServantx]

i think doing this is not good. I believe that the Lord does not want us to change the course of His plan. When i get married, my wife and i will make the conscious decision to deny this option.

God Bless

[cmpcmp]

i think doing this is not good. I believe that the Lord does not want us to change the course of His plan. When i get married, my wife and i will make the conscious decision to deny this option.
i know this probly belongs in the religious section, but....
How is it that god has a great master plan? If he did how could you screw it up? if you are able to screw it up then how can it really be a plan unless it constiantly cahnges seeing as how there are like 6 billion unaccounted for variables (humans) walking around? the whole God's plan thing never made sense to me if u belive in free will.

[scottyman]

i think it is againt nature and it should be against the law

[TheWizard]

I hope cloning is the future. :)_

[Makod]

Nanobots>cloning

Am I the only person that doesn't care if people choose the sex of their kids? Well, as long as it doesn't get blown out of proportion I don't mind it.

[*Dissident*]

The whole topic of Abortion and Sex Choosing and the like, we have to understand one thing: Although we may think that, in all cases, they are wrong, or unnatural, but there are always cases or people who should have the right to make this desicsion. should the united states government going to take the right of a woman to do what she wants with her fetus away? I dont think so. abortion should be as last measure, and not as a means of birth control. Choosing your childs sex, while im not clear on how you would do this, doesnt seem to be ethically wrong. plastic surgery and taking pills isnt what nature intended either, and neither is driving cars or the concept of currency and all of the modern advances in human civilization that seperates humans from apes.

[cmpcmp]

WTF is up with every one reasoning that anything natural is automaticly good? that doesn't make sense, there are bad 'natural' things and good 'aritificial' things. Pease try and use other reasoning like

"It would throw off the boy/girl ratio and cuse big problems"

[*Dissident*]

why would it throw off the ratio? would more parents choose to have a girl/boy over a boy/girl? it seems like its still 50/50 to me

[Phantom]

WTF is up with every one reasoning that anything natural is automaticly good? that doesn't make sense, there are bad 'natural' things and good 'aritificial' things. Pease try and use other reasoning like

"It would throw off the boy/girl ratio and cuse big problems"QTF very good point. I think people have a tendancy to like stuff better if its "natural"
Slap on all natural for the thing your selling and BAM! people buy it.