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View Poll Results: Should parents be allowed to choose the gender of their children?
Yes 7 36.84%
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Old July 13th, 2006 #1
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Default Should parents be allowed to choose the gender of their baby?

Ban expected on choosing sex of baby

PARENTS will be banned from selecting the sex of their babies for non-medical reasons as part of government plans for a shake-up of embryology regulation.

Caroline Flint, the health minister at Westminster, told MPs she was minded to introduce a "clear and specific ban" on the use of new techniques to choose a baby's gender.

Allowing parents to pick the sex for reasons such as "balancing" the make-up of their family might be a "slippery slope" to designer babies, she warned.

But Ms Flint admitted the ban would not prevent British people going abroad, where such practices were legal.

Giving evidence to the Commons science and technology committee, Ms Flint also indicated that rules allowing fertility clinics to block treatment for single women and lesbian couples would be scrapped.

This article: http://news.scotsman.com/uk.cfm?id=1017942006


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Firozali A.Mulla, Dar-Es-Salaam Tanzania / 9:59am 13 Jul 2006
Ban expected on choosing sex of baby
Now this is the news. If all, wanted the boys, where would we find girls? Alternatively, paradox. If all wanted girls, where would we find boys?


2. George, Edinburgh / 11:48am 13 Jul 2006
'Slippery slope' arguments can mislead and should always be questioned. If you succumb to that Mars Bar, is it inevitable that you will end up weighing 20 stone?

It is not at all obvious that letting parents choose the sex of their child would lead to 'designer babies'. We cannot know that without evidence, and we cannot obtain evidence if we ban it in advance. Ms Flint's fears of what might happen are not a sound basis for curbing freedom. Government should stop people doing something only if it can be shown to harm others; otherwise, it should let them be.

There are more than 200,000 IVF births a year, which is about a third of all births. Allowing sex selection could therefore create an imbalance in numbers and thus unhappy people who could not find a partner. It's hard to say which sex might be favoured, if either. Boys have more value in traditional cultures, but it's arguable that the future of the West is female.

Selection might create an imbalance, but not very quickly (at worst 0.4% a year, and probably much less). We should allow it and see what happens. If a problem develops after a year or two, we shall have plenty of time to solve it.

3. Dave, Western Isles / 3:17pm 13 Jul 2006 George

Good comments and well put. However, what's this about not curbing freedoms? To choose the sex of your baby and indeed going through IVF is not a freedom nor a right but an intervention paid for by the individual or us tax payers.

On the one hand I agree with your arguments but on the other hand Mz Flint has made a relevant point (surprisingly too for somebody who calls themself Ms).

You are FREE to make love, inseminate the woman you love and create life using natural methods but everything else outside nature is INTERVENTION, not freedom.

Hope this DOES offend those turkey baster wielding dungarees wearing fempots.
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