What presuppositions do we give to our children if we have a culture which tells a child that if it had turned out to have the 'wrong' genes it would have been terminated in the womb?
Don't we already do this to a certain extent? We provide pre-natal screening for conditions such as Downs syndrome for the explicit purpose of allowing the parents to abort if it's found.
Another thought that occurs to me - those who are desparate to pursue selection already have crude options available to them as, if they find out the sex early enough, they can abort. Would it not be preferable to have a regulated and safe way of performing sex selection for people who are so fixated?
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Re: sex selection
Date: November 18th, 2003 02:11 am (UTC)From:Don't we already do this to a certain extent? We provide pre-natal screening for conditions such as Downs syndrome for the explicit purpose of allowing the parents to abort if it's found.
Another thought that occurs to me - those who are desparate to pursue selection already have crude options available to them as, if they find out the sex early enough, they can abort. Would it not be preferable to have a regulated and safe way of performing sex selection for people who are so fixated?