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Advancement in medical technology has granted humans the ability to share in the power of Mother Nature. This advancement, known as gender selection, enables humans to directly manipulate the sex of an unborn baby. With a variety of tools and methods at hand, scientists can now choose the gender of a couple’s child and embed that child into the mother’s womb. However, this process and the reasoning behind it are a danger to human life and the definition of a human being. The practice of gender selection decreases appreciation for human life and sentences children to a life of objectification and artificial love. In short, gender selection is an unethical procedure because it interferes with the most significant aspect of natural life.

Gender selection is responsible for devaluing the worth of human life. For instance, in-vitro fertilization involves creating embryos on a petri plate and implanting an embryo of the desired gender into the uterus of the mother. While that embryo is given the opportunity to enter human society, the unwanted extras are either donated for research or discarded. These embryos, which are already in the process of becoming a human baby, are instead treated as tools and tossed aside as soon as they are not needed. To treat the embryos without the care and respect deserving of a human being is to squander the creation of life. Fertilization and conception of a baby are often referred to as nature’s greatest miracle, so it is only logical that they should be treated as such.

Aside from the waste of human life, the selected child that is born into society suffers a deprivation of his or her full individuality. When the parents are granted the power to choose the traits of their child, their hope for a boy ...

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... their preference without the complications and costliness of the medical technology. Stealing from the authority of Mother Nature is not the only way to obtain a dream child; instead, one only has to look at what one has already received.

Using gender selection to meddle with the natural process of creating life can tip the balance of healthy and stable families. It decreases the value of human life with the nature of its practices, chips away at the individuality of the resulting child, and corrupts the love of the parents for the child that they create. Besides, there is an easier and more reliable way to have a child that one desires. In any case, all children are deserving of love and kindness from their parents, regardless of their imperfections. Humans are not defined by their sex, and their values are weighed by characteristics that far exceed their gender.