Designer Babies: What's Wrong With That?

posted by Nam LaMore | Friday, March 25, 2005 |  6 speak up! | | back to top |
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LONDON (Reuters) - Proposals to allow British parents having fertility treatment to choose the sex of their unborn baby split an influential group of lawmakers on Thursday, reigniting the debate over "designer babies."

Couples should be able to decide the gender of the embryo being implanted to balance out families, parliament's cross-party Science and Technology Committee said in a report. More at Reuters ->
This is absolutely horrible .. such practice would only diminish the strength of any society. Sex-selective abortion is not a new practice, but to think that any group in a civilized society would promote such practice is tantamount to committing an ethical crime. I am a champion of a woman's right to choose, and the landmark case of Roe v Wade is, again, up for discussion. This case is always up for discussion, but the current administration may actually overturn it.

We've made too much stride in civil liberty to allow Roe v Wade to overturn, and, to know of a baby's sex through ultrasound is one thing, but it is morally wrong to bias the sex of a baby.

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Anonymous Anonymous

shared this thought, Saturday, March 26, 2005 3:45:00 AM:

Sick that people should put more value on one sex over another. Actually, I think people should stop having babies and just adopt.

Lady Luck
 

Anonymous Anonymous

shared this thought, Saturday, March 26, 2005 4:24:00 AM:

I'm not up for taking care of some welfare, crack ho's kid!

- Gary Jr
 

Anonymous Anonymous

shared this thought, Saturday, March 26, 2005 12:58:00 PM:

bush is gonna overturn roe v wade. he's made it very clear.
- kelly (you know who this is)
 

Anonymous Anonymous

shared this thought, Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:38:00 PM:

I know couples who have adopted girls from China, and they said the process is very easy. It's a sad truth that China has such a big problem.
Glenn Jenkins
 

Anonymous Anonymous

shared this thought, Monday, March 28, 2005 4:50:00 PM:

Babies should be loved no matter if they are a boy or a girl. I can't imagine giving up my baby because it was a girl. What if that baby turned out to be someone important to history, or the discovery of a cure-all drug?

- Cynthia Davos
 

Anonymous Anonymous

shared this thought, Friday, April 08, 2005 6:28:00 PM:

I don't care what sex my baby is; I hope to have a healthy baby (twins would be better!). Daphne
 

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