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This is what hit me the most. This video alone represents my view of abandoning baby girls. I stay hopeful for change. The first article was mainly about the sex preference in China. In basic terms, the article mentioned how boys were preferred because of the belief that the male dominance reflected in workforce and over all success in life. They mentioned that the issue causes infanticide and abandonment of baby girls in the country, not just China though. The effects of having such high ratio of boys and girls is that there could be difficulties finding wives, and even depression in men because they wouldn't have a partner in life. Solutions mentioned included removing the selective sex of children in China and also selective sex abortion. According to the article, global SRB should be at its peak and is hopefully going to be winding down. This is good because the negative effects of it have really taken a toll on these countries culture and their outlook of both genders.
Journal of Child Neurology:
Ouu, this particular article was extremely interesting to me. The thought of choosing the traits of partner and having the same predispositions for your future child seemed really interesting. The article basically talked about how we have come to that stage where it is possible to have children using selected genes from partners. Or at least the idea of it, preimplantation of genes. The whole point in the beginning of this idea was to prevent disease, almost like selections of embryos. How morally right is selecting embryos? I think that although it is an interesting topic, the whole designer baby thought kind of fits with it. You pretty much are planning what your future child would look or be like on the inside. I feel like it isn't okay to do this because if a trait is meant to be it's meant to be, not necessarily because we make it happen ourselves. I feel like this is somewhat playing God's plan. One solution mentioned in the article was that American Medical Association made it immorally right to do an implantation of genes with the motive of choosing genes that aren't medically/ disease concerning. If they were just physical traits for example, this would not be legal or right. Another problem aside from that ethical issue incudes the price of the study and the practice itself. We also have to think about how much it would cost to make this method of gene selection possible, according to the article. It makes sense; I mean seriously, it would cost more money thinking about the traits of your baby than to raise the baby you will love regardless as he or she is.
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