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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The reason I oppose sex selection with IVF is that the aggregate impacts could be very bad for society. It's not that your choice is going to ruin your family or the world it's that if everyone starts choosing you wind up with a lot of problems in terms of gender balance in society plus it's a great way for a lot of sexist and gender essentialist attitudes to get reinforced.

For these reasons I think it should be illegal except in the rare circumstance where there is a genetic issue that makes it inadvisable for a couple to have a baby with specific chromosomes. In which case it's not really sex selection as just selecting for the most viable chromosomes.[/quote]

It's entirely dependent on the society. Sex selection in a country like the US and most of the West is almost exactly 50/50 with an extremely slight preference for girls. Most people use it for "family balancing" vs and extremely strong preference for one sex and are therefore having both sexes. Plus, the vast majority are not using IVF to conceive, so gender selection via IVF is very unlikely to move the needle on gender balance at a societal level. The US isn't China under the one child policy, for every person chasing a boy there's another wanting a girl. So I think societal impact largely minimal, though I guess I concede it could impact some cultural communities more than others where there is an overwhelming consensus on sex preference.[/quote]

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