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Originally Posted by ZrByte
What about changing the sex of the child born to take away the risk of it being born with congenital dissorders that normally only males can be born with? A large number of cengenital dissorders do only effect one gender (normally male) and this could be avoided simply by making your child a girl.
Any reason other than medical and it becomes imoral IMO but dont even try and say that its gods will or life will find a way, that may be your belief and thats fine but using that as a reason not to allow this is just the same as forcing your belief on the masses (well it would be if that was the reasoning that leads to the ban being made permanent).
And life will find a way? Does that mean our offspring will become pondering 50ft long meat-eating reptiles? just kidding
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As I understand it, Gender selection is already allowed for medical reasons.
I have to admit, I don't think it will be a massive problem, as most people will probably just be happy to have a kid, but there are certain groups who value one gender over another.
I will say, however, that I do think Nature will act to correct any imbalance caused by this, and we may not like the results of that.
Another thing. I believe several people have misinterpreted Incog's posts in this thread. When she talked about China (although I don't think she actually bought the subject up) and the 1 family, 1 child rule, I got the impression that while she understood the reasoning behind the rule (in places, China is massively overpopulated), she didn't agree with it.
I also got the impression that she doesn't agree with Gender Selection (although people seem to think she does).