Can you imagine
choosing your baby’s sex by just taking a pill with nanotechnology able to
genetically change a fetus’s sex?
For centuries human beings have
dreamt of manipulating the results of the genetic gamble in the moment of
conception, and often choosing the sex of the baby is on the top of the list of
things to do. In fact recent studies
have found that this is viable.
These methods were discovered by accident trying to improve pre-existing
methods of treating infertility. Some of these methods are very invasive, and
the couples need to start the procedure in laboratories (in vitro). Then the
egg that is fertilized is put in the mother’s uterus, and voilá, your
boy or girl baby is on its way!.
Of course, these kinds of practices open the debate about the moral boundaries of biotechnology and how to control it. Some detractors think that
we have to maintain the natural selection of the babies because if we start
manipulating the natural course of life it will break the amazing opportunities
that it can offer us; trying to limit life’s mysteries can lead us to our own
destruction.
Some believers in this method said that these kind of techniques can
prevent abortion in some countries such as China, in which abortion conditioned
by sex it is legal.
Are you willing to change the natural sex of your baby, why?
More information about this :
You can read an article from CBS News here :
Choose The Sex Of Your Baby By Rebecca Leung, CBS News
