'Why I believe every parent has a right to choose their baby's sex' | the Daily Mail: "If a couple have had three boys, for instance, and want to have a fourth child, why shouldn’t they have the option of choosing to give birth to a girl?
And in countries such as India, pre-conception sex selection might reduce the incidence of selective abortion and female infanticide.
Of course, sex selection is hardly the ideal way of dealing with such an iniquitous practice but, in the short term, it would be a far better option until there was a radical change in a culture which seemingly prefers boys to girls.
It has been argued that sex selection might significantly change the balance of the population. But I doubt whether there is the slightest evidence that this is true.
In any case, screening fertilised eggs is such a demanding, expensive and limited technology that it could never be widely used. And if, in the unlikely event that this technology was simplified so much that it became open to widespread access, any swing in the population balance would likely be temporary."
Wednesday, November 29, 2006
'Why I believe every parent has a right to choose their baby's sex' | the Daily Mail
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Dr Maalpani, I too am a Medical Practitioner with nearly 24 years in practice as a GP or in Mumbai lingo– a Family Physician, thus dealing with & being deeply embroiled in the Family affairs of my patients.I think I am an average educated Indian who is deeply patriotic and how do you say it? “Proud to be an Indian”!! Had someone, ANYONE suggested your view to me, I would have without second thought pronounced him an IDIOT of the first order and a pompous God-player with a skewed ostrich mentality. On reading your views with more patience, I see your ideas a little more clearly and realise that working in an Infertility clinic must make you see desperate couples who have a deep-seated need for a child. The light-hearted way with which you have expounded the problem facing all societies the world over today– tells of a very narrow-minded and irresponsible approach to Life in general.
Dr Maalpani, I would like to ask you to show me somethings. Show me — An average Indian (which is 98.9% of our population!)who is civic-minded, responsible and can think & act beyond paying his own electricity bill, and arrange to send his kids to school.Show me an average Indian who keeps his town clean. Who renounces the use of polythene. Who does Rain-harvesting. Who is aware of the world aroud and its problems and spends 5 minutes a week thinking about them. Show me an average Indian lady(educated or not) who chooses her Career, her Mate, who decides on taking an Insurance Policy for herself and her family, who decides the timing of bringing her children in the world, who takes Family Planning options without the advise/orders of her husband or In-laws. Show me an average Indian Lady who can decide when to make or break her career, who gives priority to HERSELF and her needs as the pivot of her family.
Show me these and other such people and I will agree with you on allowing the Right to select the baby girl/boy of her choice!!
Wake Up Dr Maalpani!! This is India! Giving this and other such rights to an individual is not YET an option for the Human Being developed so far?? Yes we HAVE come a long way from the Iron & Stone Ages no doubt! But we have a LONG way to go before we can be responsible lifeforms for taking such decisions & playing “God”! Thats what governments are for! To prevent the individual from taking decisions that would slowly but surely DESTROY the world.And talking of Governments… Show me an intelligently voted-for government too!!!!
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