I believe that the desire to select sex itself is psychologically dysfunctional. Or in lament terms "screwed up".
I believe it exacerbates sexism and gender stereotyping.
It doesn't always work, what happens to the child who is born "the wrong" gender.
Upsets sex ratios and birth orders.
It opens the door to "designer babies".
My biggest concern is if sex selection becomes more common in the US and England it will ligitimize it's use in all it's forms in Asian countries where boys are strongly preferred. There are apparently 100 million "missing" women due to these forms of discrimination. Weather it's killed at birth or later in life, it's just staggering. The more common this gets I fear we would only be fostering the notion of boys being more important then girls.
I think we are seeing right now in China how dangerous and insane this has become and it will get worse and worse as time goes on. Most projections that I've looked up estimate that there will be between 30 and 40 million unmarried men in Mainland China by the year 2020. If you look back on historic times where there have been hordes and hordes of unattached men, well, they were very violent and bloody times. Maybe that's part of the reason why China has had such a sharp rise in violent crime in the past ten years.
And I know my last point may be a harsh one but I feel if you are a parent and your desire to predetermine the sex of your baby is so strong that you would go through these lengths to do it, then you are most likely having a child for the wrong reasons.
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Why?
Why? For so many reasons.
I believe that the desire to select sex itself is psychologically dysfunctional. Or in lament terms "screwed up".
I believe it exacerbates sexism and gender stereotyping.
It doesn't always work, what happens to the child who is born "the wrong" gender.
Upsets sex ratios and birth orders.
It opens the door to "designer babies".
My biggest concern is if sex selection becomes more common in the US and England it will ligitimize it's use in all it's forms in Asian countries where boys are strongly preferred. There are apparently 100 million "missing" women due to these forms of discrimination. Weather it's killed at birth or later in life, it's just staggering. The more common this gets I fear we would only be fostering the notion of boys being more important then girls.
I think we are seeing right now in China how dangerous and insane this has become and it will get worse and worse as time goes on. Most projections that I've looked up estimate that there will be between 30 and 40 million unmarried men in Mainland China by the year 2020. If you look back on historic times where there have been hordes and hordes of unattached men, well, they were very violent and bloody times. Maybe that's part of the reason why China has had such a sharp rise in violent crime in the past ten years.
And I know my last point may be a harsh one but I feel if you are a parent and your desire to predetermine the sex of your baby is so strong that you would go through these lengths to do it, then you are most likely having a child for the wrong reasons.
we shouldn't support technologies that encourage these pointless differences.
a person's gender only matters when we say it matters and innovations like these only furthers the pattern.
people have been toiling for decades to try to get society to look at gender in a different way. nature doesn't just make boys and girls, anyway.
gender is a socially constructed concept.
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