Fertility clinic in US gets green light for sex selection trial

[WanderAimlessly]

Eugenics being pushed more and more:

Fertility clinic in US gets green light for sex selection trial
Ian Sample, science correspondent
Thursday October 27, 2005
The Guardian

A clinical trial into the effects of allowing couples to choose the sex of their babies has been given the go-ahead at a US fertility clinic. The controversial study was given the green light by an ethics committee after nine years of consultation. The purpose of the study is to find out how cultural notions, family values and gender issues feed into a couple’s desire to choose the gender of their child.

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[Thekla]

It was only a matter of time before this started happening and I find it quite troubling. I wish that, as a country, we could have ethicists really thinking through these issues and, as a nation, get on the same page.

 

[Eileen_T]

While I sympathise with any couples who find it difficult to conceive, a child is not a ‘right’ it is a gift and a blessing. IVF turns the process of procreation into ‘production’. The child becomes a product subject to quality control (genetic testing) and is driven by consumer demand.

We must not allow ourselves to be diverted into the condemning of sex selection in IVF instead of condemning the whole practise of it.

As Catholics we risk alienating friends and family members if we condemn IVF as being morally wrong. Out of misguided compassion, too often we allow ourselves to be silenced instead of speaking out against what we know it wrong.