Ethics of Gender Selection

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This paper refers to numbers of late 1990s medical and other positions on pre-conception gender selection that has encouraged a view of the 'designer' family in which children are of both genders. It looks at how by reviewing different phenomena and reactions to the possibility of conceiving male or female children, in the West or in the developing world, emphasis is placed on what the non-medical favour for gender selection has to say about how having children is regarded.

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"The rise of pre-conceptive gender selection is sometimes said to enhance reproductive liberty, or enable couples to regulate the gender composition of their families. Feminists have criticized the possibility of societies containing more men due to the strong preference for male children that will be played out in choosing to have male children. Berkowitz notes that most arguments against the practice had centered on sex ratio alterations. "

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