again i think we have hit on a very emotive subject.... already we have seen some emotive responses just in this thread.... i am not belittling them before anyone flames me, but simply pointing out they are there.
conceiving a child is, and always will be, an emotive subject, i watched the itv programme about IVF the other week ("precisious babies") and i admit it actually made me cry..... watching the effect it has on someone on whether they can have a child or not is upsetting. my reason for going into this? well i think there was a lot of contraversy about IVF when it first got introduced, now there are thousands of people on the waiting list.... i think if you ask a lot of these people whether they would want to choose the gender of their child then i think they would say what coggy illustrated in her first post, that as long as the child was healthy they wouldn't mind.
i think that the problems which could occur due to people being able to choose the gender of their child would be that the IVF waiting list would get longer (from those wanting to have a certain gender)... so those waiting desprately to have a child would have to wait longer...
my personal opinion on this topic is that it is wrong.... i think that we should not muck around with nature. futhermore it could lead us on a slippery slope of "designer babies" (an issue i seem to remember debating on either here or .com)..as mick has already pointed out it puts me in mind of films like gatacca (can't spell it.... )
i could waffle on for hours on my opinions on this matter, and the inter linked issues, but i won't bore you all.
also can i point out everything i've said is opinion
