Choosing the Sex of Your Baby: Have We Gone Too Far?

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Today's article talks about the new craze of foreigners flocking to the U.S. to choose the sex of their next baby. It's called "pre-implantation genetic diagnosis", and for $19,000 you too can choose the sex of your baby with 99% accuracy. However, this phenomenon brings up lots of issues, such as whether choosing your baby's sex will lead us to creating "designer babies" where you can choose their hair and eye color as well. Just like you'd customize your new car, you could customize your baby. In essence, cloning people could become a mass-production nightmare. Also, this phenomenon could create gender imbalance and an underclass of people who cannot afford to create the perfect child.

I believe that God's natural selection for the sex of your baby is the only way for it to be chosen. There's a reason why it's taken us 2000 years to figure out this technology...maybe it's not supposed to be figured out. I would be more supportive of this technology if it was used to generate medically helpful advances, but seeing that people are simply wanting a girl rather than a boy is unacceptable.

With pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, are we playing God or is this a new technology that can lead to more satisfying lives due to your ability to create the family balance that you want?

Speak up!