Voices of sanity rise in a USA Today story examining the methods and ethics of testing to determine a preborn baby's gender.
"It's sort of a Wild West out there," medical geneticist Diana Bianchi of the Tufts-New England Medical Center in Boston told the newspaper.
Pro-lifers will find this portion of the USA Today story of interest:
Bianchi and Kathy Hudson, director of the Genetics and Public Policy Center in Washington, D.C., note that no government agency regulates the tests, so there's no quality control.
"These tests sort of shine a spotlight on inadequacies across the whole area of genetic tests," Hudson says.
Even if the tests were highly accurate, she says, "the question is: How are people going to use that information? I think it would be troubling if people were selectively terminating pregnancies based on the gender."
Jesse Reynolds, a policy analyst at the Center for Genetics and Society in Oakland, argues that "there are sex-selective abortions throughout the world. We shouldn't simply dismiss this as a problem that's 'over there.'
A mindset that rationalizes aborting a preborn infant because he or she is not a she or he is simply an extension of the rationale for the right to choose abortion over birth for our posterity.
A society that welcomed all babies would not tolerate this insanity.
(c) 2007 Marybeth T. Hagan
http://www.mothermayibeborn.com
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My apologies, John.
There's some sort of a kink in my website, http://www.mothermayibeborn.com, that seems to be preventing readers from commenting there. I will address that today.
Until that's corrected, I'd love to hear your thoughts if you wish to leave them here.
Marybeth