A Matter of Bioethics

Have you ever seen the movie Gattaca? I highly recommend it, minus one scene.

I found this article to be very interesting and also very troubling. Nothing is new under the sun. Man never gets it through his thick skull that he is not God.

http://msnbc.msn.com/id/3990134/

Excerpt: "No longer can science simply help couples have babies, it can help them have the kind of babies they want. Choosing gender may obliterate one of the fundamental mysteries of procreation, but for people who have grown accustomed to taking 3-D ultrasounds of fetuses, learning a baby's sex within weeks of conception and scheduling convenient delivery dates, it's simply the next logical step. That gleeful exclamation, ‘It's a boy!’ or ‘It's a girl!’ may soon just be a quaint reminder of how random births used to be. . . . Even fertility specialists are divided over whether choosing a male or female embryo is acceptable. If couples can request a baby boy or girl, what's next on the slippery slope of modern reproductive medicine? Eye color? Height? Intelligence? Could picking one gender over the other become the 21st century's form of sex discrimination?"