Human Objectification: Using IVF for Sex Selection

[The_Reginator]

Wesley J. Smith alerts us to a situation in Australia in he Secondhand Smoke blog entry:
I Have a Right to a Baby Girl! Using IVF for Sex Selection

He links to this story in the heraldsun.com: Melbourne mum travelling to Thailand to choose sex of next baby

From his blog on First Things:

One of the big stories today in Australia is of a Melbourne woman who has announced that she is traveling to Thailand to have sex selection IVF because it is against the law here. She just has to have a girl, don’t you know!
(“Already blessed with three boys – aged 5, 4 and 1 … While she says her boys mean the world to her …”)
Of course, this means the male embryonic brothers of those treasured boys will be tossed out with the other medical waste. So, in this case, a Y chromosome is a deadly defect. But after all, it is all about entlitlement:
Increasingly, IVF is not about treating infertility, but about reducing reproduction to a crass consumer activity akin to choosing a breed of dog or model of flat screen television. This is objectification pure and simple.

Sancta Maria mater Dei,
ora pro nobis peccatoribus

 

[Mark77]

**Just as 90+% of down syndrome babies & many with “defects”, as well as millions that are just plain inconvenient or unwanted are now aborted (murdered).

i was born in 1956 with “club foot”, a common birth defect which can easily be treated, allowing the person to live a normal, active life.

i recently read that many babies diagnosed with “club foot” are now being aborted due to the minor, easily treatable defect.

How truly sad it is that we now throw away human beings, legally, when just a few years ago, those lives were treasured!

What happened???**

Sancta Maria, Mater Dei, Ora Pro Nobis Peccatoribus!

mark

 

[The_Reginator]

Mark,
I, for one, am glad that you were born in 1956. Your posts give the impression that you are rather sensible.

It sometimes seems like we are in a downwards spiral. This is probably a correct viewpoint, but maybe we’ve spiralled downwards many times throughout history. ( I hardly studied history in school.)

(The other good thing about you being born in 1956 is that it makes you wee bit older than me!! )