Gender Selection
Danil Hernandez
Professor Susan Dauer
Freshman Comp I
3 December, 2014
Gender Selection The process of selecting a gender to be used in establishing a pregnancy has been a controversial issue in the United States. The new reproductive technologies have raises ethnical questions regarding its morals injustices. These revolutionary techniques create many disagreement among people as some believe that is beneficial and others think it is wrong because is not part of God’s wishes. What people who disagree with this procedure do not understand is that gender selection will not impact the sex ratio in births or cause gender discrimination. The selection of gender will, indeed, give parent’s hope of having the boy/girl they always wanted to have, it will give them the choice of preventing a genetic disease, and it may give couples, where one of them is experiencing infertility, a chance of having a baby of their own. There are two effective procedures for the selection of a gender. The first method is called Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) with In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). According to the Center for Human Reproduction, PGD is the genetic profiling of embryos prior to implantation, often used to screen for specific genetic diseases and/or gender selection. This procedure has been classify as the most effective method by the Center for Human Reproduction since it has an approaching 100% accuracy with acknowledge of the possibility for technical errors. In addition, in an In Vitro Fertilization procedure, the eggs of the woman’s ovaries are collected and mixed with the man’s sperm in a laboratory. According to the same research, couples who may benefit from the IVF treatment are woman who contains factors such as; damaged or blocked fallopian tubes, ovaries are unresponsive to fertility medications, immunological factors, and endometriosis related infertility. Or man who contain factors such as; poor sperm motility, low sperm count, and “unexplained”
Professor Susan Dauer
Freshman Comp I
3 December, 2014
Gender Selection The process of selecting a gender to be used in establishing a pregnancy has been a controversial issue in the United States. The new reproductive technologies have raises ethnical questions regarding its morals injustices. These revolutionary techniques create many disagreement among people as some believe that is beneficial and others think it is wrong because is not part of God’s wishes. What people who disagree with this procedure do not understand is that gender selection will not impact the sex ratio in births or cause gender discrimination. The selection of gender will, indeed, give parent’s hope of having the boy/girl they always wanted to have, it will give them the choice of preventing a genetic disease, and it may give couples, where one of them is experiencing infertility, a chance of having a baby of their own. There are two effective procedures for the selection of a gender. The first method is called Pre-Implantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) with In Vitro Fertilization (IVF). According to the Center for Human Reproduction, PGD is the genetic profiling of embryos prior to implantation, often used to screen for specific genetic diseases and/or gender selection. This procedure has been classify as the most effective method by the Center for Human Reproduction since it has an approaching 100% accuracy with acknowledge of the possibility for technical errors. In addition, in an In Vitro Fertilization procedure, the eggs of the woman’s ovaries are collected and mixed with the man’s sperm in a laboratory. According to the same research, couples who may benefit from the IVF treatment are woman who contains factors such as; damaged or blocked fallopian tubes, ovaries are unresponsive to fertility medications, immunological factors, and endometriosis related infertility. Or man who contain factors such as; poor sperm motility, low sperm count, and “unexplained”
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