Baby gender selection

[Spidubic]

"A Washington-based reproductive clinic is advertising gender selection services in a Canadian newspaper that targets Southeast Asian communities, CBC News has learned."

Baby gender selection

How do you feel about selecting the sex of your baby? What happens if in a few years we have a lot of little boys and very few girls?

[kishgo]

I wouldn't have wanted to know the sex of my first child but it could have been useful for the second. A male for my first and I was SURE my second would be a girl. As it turned out HE didn't want to wear pink! Had I known the sex before the birth of my second child, perhaps I might have been disappointed. And perhaps for a nanosecond maybe I was. But you know how you fall in love instantly with your baby....

[observer]

The issue, as I understand it, is that there are certain cultural groups within our country who still value boys over girls - and it is assumed that, in those situations, if the foetus is determined to be a girl - they abort. Some hospitals, often frequented by these cultural groups, are now declining to reveal the sex of the unborn child, to avoid this.

Have read a couple things that are questioning the ethics of this. Some are saying that if it's to be up to the determination of the woman whether she wants to continue the pregnancy or not - i.e. have an abortion - should it matter whether her reason is that it's inconvenient to have a child, and thus "give me an abortion" - or whether it's because I don't want a girl - or another girl - thus "Give me an abortion"

Amazing how few things are black or white, isn't it?

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