When a couple has a strong preference for a baby boy or girl, who is injured by allowing them to choose? Certainly not the child.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I think women have to be able to choose... sort of, the right of choice. They are the ones that have to make the decision because they're the ones that are going to decide to bring up that child or not.
I actually don't mind whether people can choose the sex of the baby - in fact humans have been trying to do it for 3,000 years. But there is a real issue about the safety of the technique.
Another parent's different approach raises the possibility that you've made a mistake with your child. We simply can't tolerate that because we fear that any mistake, no matter how minor, could have devastating consequences. So we proclaim the superiority of our own choices. We've lost sight of the fact that people have preferences.
In a situation where it's the child or the adult, I'm going with the child.
I feel sure that unborn babies pick their parents.
To put it mildly, I'm not crazy about the implication that pregnant women are incapable of deciding for themselves.
The first principle of child-rearing is to choose a good mother.
A woman's decision to carry a baby to term knowing that she will not reap the fruits of motherhood should be treated as an act of bravery and selflessness - the ultimate standards of good motherhood.
Every woman who chooses - joyfully, thoughtfully, calmly, of their own free will and desire - not to have a child does womankind a massive favour in the long term.
To give birth is a fearsome thing; there is no hating the child one has borne even when injured by it.