Comparing Microsort And Y-Bearing Babies

The author is the associate editor of The New Atlantis: A Journal of Technology and Society. In which, is the area of the news site that cover all technological advances and controversies on new sciences. The article cover the opinions of conservatives and progressives alike on the use engineering a child before or after birth. Although, the possibilities are endless and the benefits to humanity are countless such as, curing diseases, inherited genetics; they are filled with risks. Numerous scientists, ethicists, and other important members are present at this meeting, but exclude members with strong moral standards to have a less biased opinions. Nevertheless, ethics are not unconsidered, which is why there is such a strong force that holds

As humans we nurture newborns and associate them with their gender immediately. Whether this be the colors concerning their gender before they are even born, their clothing as a baby, even the toys we supply them with as children, humans gravitate naturally to associate certain characteristics with gender. Unknowingly, parents find themselves setting their

When someone is pregnant, people will usually ask for the sex of the unborn child thus proving that people are socially categorized from the beginning of life and is something that is continued throughout life. One is expected to behave the way their assigned gender is supposed to behave. Gender socialization is when people are expected to act a certain way based on their “gender”. Through the following agents: family, schools, peers, and media, gender socialization is emphasized and made very real in the world today.

It seems that many middle class and lower/working class families do not want to have a child that is a boy, they instead prefer a girl. This article explains why these parents are truly hoping to have little girls and breaking away from traditional norms that preferred boys. Having a male child is a fear amongst certain social classes in the United States. This fear is due to the expected gender roles that society expects from males, the normal aggressive behavior and boys don’t cry roles.

decide the gender of a baby that are more profoundly disturbing. In a society where

“Is it a boy or a girl?” is a question that is commonly used in a world where roughly 350,000 babies are born each day. Questions such as the one previously stated are what helps to determine what gender a child would be. “Learning to Be Gendered” by Penelope Eckert and Sally McConnell-Ginet focuses mainly on the factors that potentially influences gender. These factors can include names, colors, voice change and the societal norm of what a boy and girl should be. Eckert’s main argument is that being gendered isn’t something one can to gain based off of physical characteristics but rather on their own and through their interaction with society. Names and clothing are just a small part of the symbolic resources used to support a consistent ongoing

Dena Davis in the 5th chapter of “Genetic Dilemmas: Reproductive Technology, Parental Choices, and Children’s Futures” explores the global attitudes, policies, and morality towards determination of sex. She begins with presenting empirical evidence of some preferences held in countries such as India or China where there is a clear desire for male children. This inclination is so deeply held that mothers can be socially and physically harmed when, by pure biological chance, they fail to produce a male child. Davis and others allow sex selection in these cases, purely in the interest of harm reduction of mothers and their daughters born into such a situation.

In this article, “Google, Tell Me. Is My Son a Genius? Stephen Davidowitz believes parents show biases regarding their sons and their daughters. He claimed: “Based on Google searches, contemporary American parents are far more likely to want their boys smart and their girls skinny.” He supported his claim by citing the sources like; the National Center for Health Statistics (overweight children), The Department of Education Office of Civil Rights (gifted children). Moreover, he emphasized, “This methodology can also be used to study gender preference before birth. Every year, Americans make hundreds of thousands of searches asking how to conceive a child of a particular sex. Among the subset of Americans Googling for specific gender conception strategies, there is about a 10 percent preference for boys compared with girls.” (Daviodwitz, 2014)

“Oh Mandy, congratulations! So... tell us everything! Is it a girl or a boy?!” This was the first question I was asked by all of my friends and relatives after giving birth. It was also the first of a series of questions that I found myself completely unable to answer: How did I feel? What went through my mind when I saw my baby for the first time, and realized it had ambiguous genitalia? What will I choose to do and why? Would sex-altering surgery give my child a chance at a normal life? These were the kinds of questions that I was suddenly facing, and that I have tried to answer as best I can in this paper.

These days gender selection has become one of the controversial topics all around the world. Advanced technologies vastly affected peoples’ lives in order to select their babies’ genders that they hoped. Imagine, is it fair to select the gender of a child that might lead us to the discrimination and gender imbalance? In the article, “Gender Selection of Babies,” the author discusses whether it is good to use the opportunity to select babies’ genders or simply accept the babies the way they are. The article states that the people who support the gender selection should have right to select the gender of their babies without interference by the government or the society. People believe that mature adults should be free to select the gender of their babies to control over their family lives. On the other hand, the article also states that despite the continued use of technology for the gender selection in the medical field, there is no more than 50% chance of producing the desired gender of babies. People against the gender selection also argue that parents need to accept their children in a natural form. Biggest of all, this gender selection can also lead to sex discrimination and gender imbalance. While considering these terms, parents should accept the children the way they are without any interference.

First and foremost, a person’s genitalia does not and cannot define their gender, as gender is an expression and is unrelated to genitalia. One’s assigned sex at birth, based solely off of genitalia, is defined as that person’s ‘cisgender’(insert citation). This may be different from the gender one expresses themselves as. People who must represent themselves as their cisgender are enslaved into their body; they are stuck in place, being restrained by the crushing weight of a ball and chain of societal values, with no say as to what they truly believe they are. Each and every individual suffers, knowing they do not pertain to any kind of body that which they identify with. Ignorant parents and doctors find themselves misgendering their children at birth, and as an unfortunate consequence, for the rest of their lives. The child never is able to express their opinion as what they themselves may identify as. One possible example of a parent showing at least a shred of respect for their newborn could be showing their baby the color spectrum and allow them to pick their favorite color that represents a gender. That is one of the ideal

After the one child policy institute, “infant girls have become more likely to die than boys because more families killing their daughters” (Parkinson). Because the firstborn male child is meaningful in Chinese traditional culture, particularly in rural areas even today, as sons can inherit the family name and property from elders. Due to losing of girls. China became the most gender-imbalanced country. According to the report, “The sex ratio at birth (between male and female births) in mainland China reached 117:100 and remained steady between 2000 and 2013, substantially higher than the natural baseline, which ranges between 103:100 and 107:100”(Chen). The sex imbalance will cause a lot of Chinese men hard to find a wife, especially in remote rural

Using preimplantation gender selection is a well-known practice in the twenty-first century to select the sex of a child, but the ethical issues behind it raise many questions to the public. As stated in the “A Question of Gender: Sex Selection in Humans” essay, there are many ambivalent arguments for and against the use of the preimplantation gender selection (PGS). As stated in the essay, selecting the sex of a child to reduce health problems (X-linked diseases) and also reduce the family’s suffering in the future, such as, hemophilia or Duchenne muscular dystrophy. I would be able to understand and be able to appreciate parents’ decision to select the sex of their children only if it is due to medical issues, in my opinion there is no exception to that.

“I don’t care if it’s a boy or girl. I just want a healthy baby.” Advancements in technology allow parents to learn more than ever about their baby in utero such as the sex, developmental milestones and potentially any congenital defects. A new parents’ greatest fear is that their baby will be sick or struggle to survive; if parents were able to know their child would be born with a condition that would keep them from leading a typical life, should they be able to terminate? Having a disability or congenital birth defect does not mean the same thing for our youth as it did ten, twenty, or even fifty years ago. The same advancements in technology and science that allow us to learn more in utero have enabled us to understand genetic conditions

Let me give you a scenario; It’s 3:00am. Rushing down the halls of a hospital you are on your way to support a person who is doing one of the most beautiful and complex things in life. Giving birth. You are the doctor in the room. Cutting the umbilical cord you hand the mother her child. She smiles up at you with tear rimmed eyes and you wrap the child up in a blanket and hold out to her a beautiful baby _____. Boy or girl? It doesn’t really matter which you say so long as you say one or the other, right? Within a few moments after birth and a quick scan between the legs of the child will enable you to develop a gender label for the child that they will carry for the rest of their life relevant to their sex.