Dan Minette wrote: >Let's also assume that it rarely was used to get all boys or all >girls, that most families who used it picked a girl if they had a >boy and a boy if they had a girl. Why would this be such a >significant problem that the government had to ban it?
Certainly in *this* country, that would be the case. Most families that I know with all boys would like their next child to be a girl, and vice-versa. I think the problem lies in that many of the sex- choice tourists (for lack of a better term) are not making their choice based on some paradigm of, well, balancing out the family ledger, so to speak. I think a majority of them are coming here specifically to have a baby of a specific sex because that sex is "better" than the other one. I personally am repelled by the idea of choosing a baby's sex. I don't see it as a practice that needs banning, but I do see where the logical next step is "Why can't my baby be blond, or tall, or any number of other more desirable traits?" and I can further see why some people want to nip it in the bud, right or wrong. My question is, at what point would the possible practice of "tinkering" with one's progeny before they're even conceived be banned? I also wonder, if such tinkering becomes viable, does it have the possibility of damaging an egalitarian society? Jim _______________________________________________ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! _______________________________________________ http://www.mccmedia.com/mailman/listinfo/brin-l
