Should parents be allowed to select the gender of their offspring?

Question

Should parents be allowed to select the gender of their offspring?

Answer 1

um no

Answer 2

Freedom of choice is a good principle, but harm is done to others by the practice of s*x selection and so it should not be allowed. Apart from the danger that serious gender imbalances will result (covered in point 3 below), making some sort of sexual selection legal and acceptable will reinforce and legitimise gender stereotypes. In practice this will inevitably mean more oppression of women, already seen as less valuable than men in many cultures. Nor is s*x selection supported by the Universal Declaration of Human Rights; its writers did not imagine recent developments but did include rights for equal treatment and status for women, which allowing gender selection would undermine.

Answer 3

what do you mean?

i dont understand the question.

like if you want a girl keep going until you have a girl or is there a scinetific way you can choose?

Answer 4

No that's just freaky! Be happy with what God gives you!!

Answer 5

Absolutely not, I met with my father today for lunch and he said he saw a special on CNN about China's population and how they are limited to one child right now and they aborting if they have girls, all the way up to the 8th month of pregnancy...  No one wants girls because they need men to be able to support them when they are older, and he said that their economy is going to have serious problems in the future with no females...  It's truly sickening, we were both almost in tears...

Answer 6

In general I think it's ridiculous but some couples do it because they are carriers of a genetic disease that will only affect one gender so they opt to have the other.  I can understand it in that case but not just for fun.

Answer 7

No they shouldn't even though they can but i think even if you go threw all of that i think if god expects you to have a boy even though you want a girl something will happen and it will be a boy so i don't think it is smart to spend that much money on something that is not certain and i think they should just be happy that htey are having a child and not be so darn picky  

Answer 8

it's stupid