Belluck, Pam. "If Your Really, Really Wanted a Girl." The New York Times. The Boston Globe, 20 Aug. 2011. Web. 15 Sept. 2011.
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/08/21/sunday-review/if-you-really-really-wanted-a-girl.html?_r=1&ref=abortion
Receiving the news of being a parent or a baby is on the way is usually an exciting time many look forward to. Some also become very curious and anxious to hear what the sex of the baby will be, and some just are disappointed once the sex is revealed. While doing a scientific study at the University of Connecticut, Pam Belluck collected many observations of whether the sex of a baby affects a parents opinion or outlook on their child. From there, tests such as a simple DNA test can detect if the baby is diagnosed with Down syndrome or has any other complications, and if the embryo showed up positive, many woman may consider an abortion. Belluck emphasizes that the sex selection procedure has lowered the abortion rates within the past four years, and pre-implantation has gone on the rise. Some parents in India or China are even pre-implanting genetics so they will conceive a male child instead of a female child. Overall, pre-implanting and early genetics testing may create the 'perfect' child for any curious family.
When reading this article, I felt as if I do not agree with it at all. Choosing a child's sex should not be up to the parent, and for this, I believe this is not a good topic for me to discuss or negotiate with. In my own opinion, a child is created the way it is for a specific reason, and by implanting female or male genetics, whether fits your want, you are 'customizing' your child. Even though the abortion rates have gone down, creating a child the right way (in some people's mind) is not how the child was once thought to be. Some people may completely disagree with my opinion for the fact of it is saving babies' lives and causing some eliminate the abortion as a possibility, but after all, the decision of keeping, aborting, or even changing the babies sex is in the hands of the parents.
I think this is a very good article choice. It's an interesting, and important, topic and I definately agree with your stance on the issue. Should you choose to write your essay on this topic, I think this would be a good article to use, because it would be useful in a refute. It's definately something to research more. Good summary.
ReplyDeleteThis is a very interesting topic, I hadn't heard too much about implanting DNA to choose the sex of the child. I believe anything that stops abortions would be beneficial to society. I think it would be a great topic to discuss more in a large group.
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