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 Sunday, October 30, 2005
Sex Selection Trial Approved in U.S. Fertility Clinic
Fertility clinic in US gets green light for sex selection trial Ian Sample, October 27, 2005, The Guardian A clinical trial into the effects of allowing couples to choose the sex of their babies has been given the go-ahead at a US fertility clinic. The controversial study was given the green light by an ethics committee after nine years of consultation. The purpose of the study is to find out how cultural notions, family values and gender issues feed into a couple's desire to choose the gender of their child. . . posted by maggie at 11:13 AM | link 
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Who is on that "Ethics Commitee"? At least one of their own doctors, but I can't find a complete list.
These ethics commitees are nothing more than "timing commitees", as there is nothing that they don't think is ethical, but lots of things that they realize will not be accepted by the public until the time is right, until the inevitibility factor has worn the public down and they expect a "new development". So that's when the "ethics commitee" wakes up and releases the next thing on their list. There was nothing that changed to make sex selection suddenly ethical, they've been able to do it for years now.
I really think this is a bad idea.
No matter how it's being presented.
I agree with Francoise Shenfield (quoted in the article you linked to): "If you believe in equality as enshrined in international human rights, it's illogical to allow social sex selection. It necessarily means that one sex is preferable to the other for that couple."
It appears that a Baptist medical school in the Vatican City of Baptists didn't get the memo that scientific discovery should be forbidden.
Scientific study is not above ethics and morality. The point here is application: and it seems to boil down to, do it because it can be done.
What is the ethical case, if any, that is made in favor of sex selection?
Ther is no ethical case. It is all about utilitarianism and opportunism turned to unethical purposes.
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