Ever wondered if a mother has the possibility to choose the desired gender of the child? Gender selection is a procedure that offers a couple the opportunity to choose the sex of an unborn child. Many believe that Gender selection is a very dangerous procedure. They think that the cost is very expensive and not worth it. Also, the people say that gender selection takes away parts of the natural process of creating a child. However, many disagree with these beliefs. Gender selection is ethical because it can benefit families in many different ways.
Gender selection can benefit a couple because it gives them the power to choose the gender they want. Being able to pick the desired sex of the future child can keep a mother and father
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Many couples have tried to get a daughter, but they have gotten just guys. They continue trying to try to get the desired gender, but they end up having 6 guys and 0 girls.( In times it’s the opposite depending the situation.) One would feel very unsuccessful and unsatisfied if they had tried several times to get the child wanted, but they end up with the opposite. If doing gender selection a child wouldn’t be dealing with some harsh things that parents would tell them. In many situations there has been times where a parent gets frustrated with their son or child and tells them that they always wanted the opposite gender of them. Parents offend the child mentally and can cause the child to keep that in mind for the rest of their life. It is never a child's fault that he or she is a male or female. If picking the gender a mother or father would never state something like that to their child. Gender selection can also avoid abortions. Since a couple may had tried many times and they already had a lot of kids they decide to abort. When having many kids of the opposite gender one has desired can cause a mother to decide to abort. Abortions can be avoided if people use gender selection as an option. Gender selection can help an individual to control the size of the …show more content…
It makes it easier to be a good parent. When doing gender selection a parent would be able to choose the gender they want and they would be a very good parent towards them. Mothers can have very good skills in doing hair or love doing sports simple things like that can really help you be a great parent. If a mother has the option to choose the gender, they would choose what they believe is easiest for them. Gender selection can give you time to prepare everything for the child. When baby showers come usually a couple gets blue and pink accesories since no one knows what the child will be. If they knew they would have everything for the child's correct gender ahead of time. Many wait till they get their child just to make sure they don’t buy the wrong thing or anything. Gender selection would save so much and time and help a couple be less stressed. Everything for a child may take time and it would take even longer if having to wait for what gender it will be. If a couple knows what they want they can start painting the child’s room and getting anything needed ahead of time to welcome the child in the best way possible. Gender selection can really save time and help you be prepared for what is coming
Many parents do in fact have desires related to their children that with sex selection could come to fruition, however using a child solely as an end seems unreasonable . Savulescu argues that if parents “love their child as an end itself” that any other desires, such as a father wanting a male child because he loves boys that play sports, that sex selection could facilitate would do no harm since it is ok for some of the “means” of having a child to be fulfilled.
When I first thought about what it would be like to have an intersex child, I drew a blank. The reason being that I had never even considered it a possibility. This stems form the serious lack of knowledge of the subject from the general society. Upon further consideration, I thought to myself, why should ambiguous genitalia affect in any way how I feel about my child? Having a boy or a girl makes no difference to a parent. All they care about is that they have a healthy baby. This would be my only concern in this situation. A child’s genitals should not be changed if they are born intersex. Who we are is defined by much more than our biological features. There are so many different things that influence who we are that it is impossible to use something like a penis or vagina to determine what role we will play in society. That decision should be entirely our own, which is why I would raise my intersex child with no gender
Two of the most popular technologies used today for sex selection are, in vitro fertilization (IVF) and pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) (Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine, 2015). IVF involves combining the egg cells and the sperm cells outside the uterus. Once fertilized, the egg is then implanted back into the women’s uterus or stored for future use.
A gynaecologist can easily perform an ultrasound and tell parents what gender to expect their child to be. Reasonably, parents have the choice to learn the gender or to keep it a surprise. However, For parents to know they are expecting a daughter by chance or for them to choose that they want a daughter are two different cases. There are a variety of methods that allow parents to choose the gender of their child. In some cases, there may be fear of passing down a sex-linked genetic disease and so a certain gender may be preferred to protect the child’s health. However, a contentious issue is whether or not gender selection for non-medical reasons is ethically defensible. There are three positions that one could take: gender selection can never, sometimes, or always be ethically defended. In this paper, I intend to argue that gender selection is always permissible.
Although science is at a peak for overwhelming and astonishing outbreaks, the ethical issues concerning these “out breaks” have been inadequately addressed. As the options that couples that are desperate to have a child expand, so do too the expectations of whom the child becomes. Couples are able to choose a donor, of either gender, based on characteristics that they see fit to their liking. Although imperfect, couples now have the ability to choose their child’s gender. “Medicine tends to be patient-driven at the moment.” Said Charles Strom, MD, PhD, director of medical genetics at Illinois Masonic Medical Center in Chicago. “A patient needs something and physicians do all they can to provide that service, and that sometimes makes one shortcut the ethical considerations.” With our vast
Amniocentesis and ultrasound techniques are the most common ways for couples to determine the sex of the child before it is born. In the US, such tests are routine and not usually alarming, but in nations such as India and China those tests, and others, have become an issue of debate since the results could mean life or death. Until the 1980’s, people in poor countries could do little about their preference for sons before birth, ...
...ce and male to female ratio. G.I Serour states: “It is argued that gender selection for nonmedical reasons will reinforce this male preference pattern, lead to a serious distortion of the sex ratio, identify gender as a reason to value one person over another, or contribute to society's gender stereotyping.” (Transcultural Issues In Gender Selection). In conclusion many of the signs point to the idea and practice of gender selection being unethical and an immoral concept. Selecting the gender of your child for nonmedical reasons before it naturally happens is unethical and also unsafe. Introducing destructive processes and tools into the body is bad enough on its own but using them while a baby is developing is absolutely absurd. Babies should have the opportunity to naturally develop into what they were meant to be, not what their parents would prefer them to be.
People say that a child needs both a male and a female figure in their life to psychologically develop properly but;
In today’s day and age there are new forms of technology being developed to accomplish just about any task and make any sort of wish possible. With this being said many human beings throw caution to the wind and decide to take action on their every want and need. When it comes to the process of procreating and bringing a child into this world parents can find themselves hoping and wishing for one gender over another. In order to ensure that the gender they want is what they get parents can go through variations of processes in order to select the desired gender for their baby. Many in today’s world have deemed these sorts of practices unethical and immoral and some forms of religion refuse the idea of it. “The prospect of preconception gender selection appears to pose the conflict—long present in other bioethical issues—between individual desires and the larger common good. Yet doing so leads to the risk that children will be treated as vehicles of parental satisfaction rather than as ends in themselves, and could accelerate the trend toward negative and even positive selection of offspring characteristics” (Robertson 3). In this argumentative essay I will be going through the different areas of controversy surrounding this particular topic and focusing on the immorality of such an act.
While all of these viewpoints are legitimate, it still does not remove the blatant fact that there could be genetic consequences of these actions. What happens when as a result of trying to “better” your child, the procedure actually does more harm? Another question to ask the proponents is how can you face your child every day knowing you couldn’t just accept them for who they were, but rather who you wanted them to be? When did playing the role of God become acceptable? All of these questions need to be evaluated before we can make a definite decision to allow ordinary human beings to decide the fate of their child.
Gender is determined by the sex chromosomes, XX produces a female, and XY produces a male. Males are produced by the action of the SRY gene on the Y chromosome, which contains the code necessary to cause the indifferent gonads to develop as testes (1). In turn the testes secrete two kinds of hormones, the anti-Mullerian hormone and testosterone, which instruct the body to develop in a masculine fashion (1). The presence of androgens during the development of the embryo results in a male while their absence results by default in a female. Hence the dictum "Nature's impulse is to create a female" (1). The genetic sex (whether the individual is XX or XY) determines the gonadal sex (whether there are ovaries or testis), which through hormonal secretions determines the phenotypic sex. Sexual differentiation is not drive...
There are variables that could affect her choice. She could be poor, the child could have a birth defect, and so on. Giving her a right to decide whether she should abort the baby, it’s entirely her choice. What if the mother was raped or she got pregnant from incest? Would you traumatise this mother with the child of the rapist for 9 months, and would you allow an inbred child that will most likely have a disability and be put through literal hell?
Determining whether to divulge the gender of a child should be a personal choice. Society should not dictate whether one chooses to disclose the sex of their child. At conception, the gender is determined by chromosome characteristics and it will be the male (male semen) that dictates whether the baby will be a boy or girl. Nowhere in any literature that has been read or published that it states that “society” is the determining factor whether a girl or boy will be conceived. Society suggests that knowing the gender is routine, but what may be considered routine for some is not necessarily customary for all. If one chooses to stray away from what is considered to be “normal” it poses or present an issue. Individuals are instantaneously met with opposition or back lash due to nondisclosure of the sex of their child whether it is unborn or born. A typical argument would be as to what color clothing to bring for the unborn or born child, should one bring pink or blu...
Daniel Callahan, however, chooses to convey his argument about the bioethics of artificial insemination through a male perspective in his 1992 article “Bioethics and Fatherhood.” He argues that since the beginning of artificial insemination, there has been a trend to overlook the male and his anonymous donation of sperm. His writing style is fairly easy to read and very straightforward in an attempt to convey his point to the general population. His opinion is obvious through his very one-sided argument as well as occasional sarcastic remarks. For this, he does not base many of his points on factual evidence but more abstract, logically deduced theory. His argument is that this man, the sperm donor, is biologically responsible for the newly born child and its life thereafter. He bases his argument around the responsibility of the individual, the technology that allows men to be overlooked, and the rights movement that has lessened the responsibility of the man in fatherhood.
In the early days most pregnant women would rely on their grandmother’s silly predictions or other old wives tales to predict whether their unborn baby was a boy or a girl. However, women had no way of knowing the sex of their baby until the actual moment of birth. The idea of gender determination has always been a challenge, and to this day one still cannot fully understand the concept of gender determination. However, with the use of modern day technology and much research, experts have found ways to determine the sex of unborn fetus.