Gender Selection
For centuries there had been one sex that dominated the development of society. Laws, religion and lifestyle all revolved around the idea that one sex, the male sex, was dominant. Oppressed and considered inferior, women would obey the men, forgo all rights and accept all responsibility. Only recently, with the emergence of the women's liberation movement, have both sexes been considered equal. For the first time in human history, both sexes have been given the chance to fulfill their potentials without discrimination. Parents, despite preferences of having a girl, or a boy, have known that regardless, their child would have an equal opportunity at life. The cutting edge technology, however, means that all this could change. The ability of parents to actually select the gender of their child could have not only devastating effects on society, but on the lives of so many children and parents. Whether parents had a girl or a boy has always been left up to nature to decide. To date, no-one has dared interfere with the genetic workings of the body, mainly because the technol
Where is the line drawn when it comes to controlling a human life? If gender alterations are allowed, what will come next? Perhaps parents will opt for children with blonde hair, blue eyes and exceptional intellect over ones that are truly theirs. By doing this, the parents are robbing the child of their true sexuality. The gender modifying could alter another aspect of that person, deforming them, or disabling them. It is impossible to decide whether or not the child would prefer to be a different sex then to have a genetic disorder. What altering the genetic makeup of a human being does to that human being is untested, and highly dangerous. Leave the child how it was created, don't recreate the child and strip it of its identity. Even assuming that the gender could be manipulated without any health risk, it would transform the disease into an affliction of the poor, and it would label those people for the rest of their lives. That is a fact that everyone must stop and consider. The consequences are largely unknown, and could be dire. By ensuring that the baby born cannot actually have the disease does not mean that it does not carry the disease. The effects could be endless and disastrous. The selection of gender discriminates, first and foremost, against one particular gender. It is impossible to decide because it is a decision that was never meant for mankind to make. The only way to ensure that the disease never surfaces again is to ensure all children born of that family were genetically changed to be all the one sex.
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