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Argument: Gender selection creates a slippery slope to "designer babies"
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"A Boy for You, a Girl for Me: Technology Allows Choice". Washington Post. December 14, 2004 - "the critics say, the trend is a dangerous first step toward transforming childbirth from a natural process full of surprise and wonder into just another commodity in which a baby's features are picked like options on a new car."
Michael J. Sandel, a political philosopher at Harvard University, to the Washington Post in 2004. - "It runs the risk of turning procreation and parenting into an extension of the consumer society. Sex selection is one step down the road to designer children, in which parents would choose not only the sex of their child but also conceivably the height, hair color, eye color, and ultimately, perhaps, IQ, athletic prowess and musical ability. It's troubling."[1]
George Annas, a Boston University bioethicist, quoted in a 2004 Washington Post article. - "It is the first step towards the concept of a designer baby. If you don't draw the line at disease, where do you draw the line? If gender is okay, it's hard to say any other characteristic we might be able to select in the future is off-limits."[2]
