Fertility Ethicists OK Sex Selection of Embryos

	posted by Nightmist on Sunday September 30, @08:11PM from the masculinity dept.
	Under certain circumstances, says a fertility ethicist, it is OK for a couple to use invitro fertilization to choose the sex of their child. According to this article on Excite News, the ethicists say it's OK as long as the couple already has children of the opposite sex. Other ethicists were surprised by the decision, calling the selection of sex the start of a discrimination slippery slope which will end in selection of color, intelligence, etc. In other words, a lack of diversity.

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More of the same... by zerostress on Sunday September 30, @10:15PM EST (#1) (User #275 Info) This link talk about the same subject http://www.nytimes.com/2001/09/30/opinion/30SUN2.h tml

Two sides to this by Anonymous User on Monday October 01, @12:41PM EST (#2) Okay, I have my own reservations about designer babies, but say you want to have a kid, and you know you or your spouse carries a sex-linked genetic trait for a deadly, or just plain horrifying, illness. You know that if you have a boy (or a girl), that child has a definite or very good chance of being born with this disease. *I* say such a couple should adopt, but then again, I think the world is overpopulated and everyone should adopt. However, the world doesn't revolve around my opinions. If such a couple is going to have a bio kid, I think it's *moral* to choose to have a child of the gender where the phenotypic expression of this trait won't occur (that means that, while they may carry the gene, they won't develop the disease...heh, I'm studying genetics right now). So, I don't think this technology is a completely bad thing. I don't think we should totally prohibit people from using this, but any ethical doctor will choose to put limitations on its use.

Re:Two sides to this by Nightmist (nightmist@mensactivism.org) on Monday October 01, @12:54PM EST (#3) (User #187 Info) Notice that the article specifically addresses NON-MEDICAL selection of sex.

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