Gender
Selection Issues
Gender
Selection Controversy because of In Vitro Applications
The issue of gender selection continues as a controversial
subject mostly because of in-vitro applications. The controversy
is based on the assumption that nature's (or God's) will
is being interfered with and that given too much license
we will start producing babies with particulat traits or
type according to another human's decision. Worse we will
be allowed to terminate a foetus that does not comply with
norms set by ourselves rather than a higher source or nature.
PDG
One of the most controversed in vitro method is Preimplantation
diagnosis and selection (PDG), which can be considered a
eugenic technology. It involves the fertilisation of some
eggs on the laboratory bench and then after examination
re introducing only the desired foetus (for instance free
of genetic desease or because it is a particular sex Chromozone)
and wasting the others . Many disability rights organizations,
in particular, have been critical of its uncontrolled use,
and point out that the definition of "disease" is to some
extent subjective. Most disability rights advocates who
criticize PGD and prenatal screening nonetheless support
abortion rights. They believe that a woman should be allowed
to decide whether or not to have a child at a given time,
but not to base this decision on the traits of the particular
embryo.
Natural
Gender Selection has no Medical Interference
The arguments will continue and most countries are against
PDG, but the enormous difference with the natural gender
selection method of Baby Choice is that whilst also based
on latest scientific knowlegde, it simply enables Mothers
to attempt conception only on the days that nature has already
decided are days which are favorable for the conception
of a boy or girl. So there is no termination of a foetus
or interference with a foetus or with Mother nature, or
the selection of fertilised eggs according to a another
human's choice.
Every
Parent has the Choice of the Conception Times
If a mother decides that her family cannot support another
baby, at least not at the moment, she can decide not to
have sex during her charted ovulation window, (days that
are favorable for the conception of a baby). She has influenced
nature for the good of her family but she has not gone against
nature or her religion. If when she tries again for pregnancy
but only on the ovulation window that is for a little girl
which she and her family would like rather than another
boy, then she only going with nature's way. The wish to
have sex at any given time of day or month by a man and
a women is surely their decision and nature has after all
organised it that way!.
Religious
Influence
Many
religions allow contraception by using the non ovulation
days but yet they have denied the use of condoms to their
followers. That decision is a courageous one, as millions
have died every year through Aids which could have been
simply avoided with the use of condoms.
Costs
We
now have the information on natural gender choice (God given
) and we can use it . The cost of clinical intervention
and selection is between $1000 to $20 000 depending on the
frequency of attempts and the success results are still
uncertain.
The
ongoing controversy and experiments will continue but they
are not concerned with a women's right to attempt conception
on a particular day!
