Parents Should be Able to Pick the Gender of Their Children

Thanks Con!Prayer Yesterday, Technology Today!:In the Aincent societies, such as Egypt, Greece, Rome, etc... the people who would become new parents often held sacrifices to dieties to try and allow the mother to give birth to a particular gender of baby. Some cultures such as China put huge emphasis on certain genders of babies, and today we have the technology to do that very easily via two safe methods:1) genetic diagnosis, in which embryos created in a test-tube are analysed before being implanted in the womb, and 2) the MicroSort technique, in which sperm is 'sorted' to make it much more likely that the egg is fertilised by a sperm carrying the desired chromosome. The discourse of this debate shall be centered around the vaildity of these two methods, as they are becoming more and more widely used. The desireability espescially in China and India is espescially evident. First, China is notorious for it's state-enforced abortions. Namely that if the courts find a baby undesireable, against their own laws due to presecedent, the courts may order a woman to undergo an abortion. Secondly, while India may also have been involved in enforcing a child policy to control it;s populations, the desireability of boys is also espescially prominent.(https://en.wikipedia.org...)So Whats The Consequences?:First, resources allocated to unnecessary abortions due to the undesireability of the babies gender would be greatly reduced. As noted in the economist "‘Parents choose to abort female foetuses not because they do not want or love their daughters, but because they feel they must have sons’ (usually for social reasons)" (http://www.economist.com...) Ending the trauma against women for giving birth to a child they never wanted is economically positive, and relieving of trauma against the mother, who may become attached to the child when they suddenly are forced to abort it. Case-and-point, by allowing parents to select the gender of their children, it should cause infanticide to dramatically decrease. Secondly, it can reduce body incompetence. Espescially those genetic diseases in which are sex specific. (http://www.time.com...) These range in nature from baldness and colour blindness to muscular dystrophy and haemophilia. Women are disproportionately affected by diseases of the immune system for instance, and gender sleection birthing processes will allow them to avoid this, something children will no doubt also find undesireable in their later years. Thirdly, economic impacts would be over-all positive. This is because the sex-selection industry (as reported here:http://9e.devbio.com...) would market about a $200 million a year for the economy. Clearly a demand is present in North America for sex selection operations. This is also a minimum, as the source notes 30% of parents would consider it, and that 200 million would only come if 2% of those 30% were to actually do it. Meaning the revenue for the companies along with the revenue for the economy could be much much larger. Furthermore, a common question encountered with this is what happens if a gender unequally becomes more "birthed" than another? I hold that the free-market would sort it's self out in terms of gender desireabilility. For instance, let's say in the US, more boys becomne birthed than girls. The value of girls would obviously increase for the population to continue to rise. The boys would also be unhappy about beeing unable to reporduce, which would cause a rise in the birthing of girls. The population would always remain equal through desireability and needs of the people and the populatons. Fourthly, and finally, the liberties of parents would without a doubt increase. Parents have a tough time raising kids, and cultural norms sometimes dictate unfairly to women the genders they are required to birth, even though they have no control over it. Now they do, the process is indeed safe, and parents ought to be able to select the gender of their choice, provided both potential parents consent to the gender selection process. It makes parenting easier instead of looking at their child loathing them due to their gender. It would increase in the quality of care to children in the family unit. And it's about time that parents -- whom in their first 3 months can bank on not getting any sleep due to the baby -- are rewarded for their hard work day in and day out, that the GDP of the current country fails to reflect. Consider this a thank you from the medical feild! Thank youOver to my opponent.