Should parents be able to choose the gender of their child?
Ooh, interesting. I would probably continue on the vein of gender selection methods. “What gender selection method do you intend on using?” “How can you ensure that the baby will be the gender you wanted?” “What do you intend to do if the procedure results in the undesired gender?” You can talk about the risks of determining what gender a fetus is. There are only TWO ways you can find out: amniocentesis (a shot that goes into the womb and gets amniotic fluid – somewhat dangerous to the fetus) and ultrasound (almost no known dangers, but the gender can’t be determined sometimes until after 20 weeks, by which time most states have laws that ban abortion. You usually can’t get an abortion if the fetus is past 20 weeks gestation). If you find out via ultrasound, you may have to wait until 20 weeks to actually make out what the gender is (sure you can have ultrasounds before, but usually it’s very unclear). Abortion is not an option usually after 20 weeks (and it is clearly extremely horrif
