Local Couple Chooses Sex Of Unborn Child (Yes! The Technology Exists!)

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[ComtedeMaistre]

Local Couple Chooses Sex Of Unborn Child

Fri Feb 13, 3:47 PM

A lot of parents choose to find out the sex of their baby while they are pregnant. But now some parents are choosing the sex of the baby before it's even conceived. Melissa Marsh introduces us to a family from Pleasant Garden who got their wish after 10 years, a baby girl.

Tommy and Dana Paschal's family consisted of three boys for 10 years. T.G.,18, is the oldest, Kevin, 16, is in the middle and Michael,12, is the youngest boy.

But on October 12, 2001, the Paschal family's life changed. Dana's wish came true, she had a little girl and named her Heather. "We were due Oct. 28, and she ended up coming Oct. 12 on my 34th birthday, so we share a birthday,!" said Dana.

Heather is a normal 2-year-old, but how she got here is anything but. Dana said she picked up a magazine at a local store that featured an article on choosing the sex of your baby.

After reading the article she called the genetics and IVF Institute in Fairfax, Va., one of the few companies in the U.S. that helps couples pick the sex of their babies.

[ComtedeMaistre]

Isn't the story wonderful?

If this technology becomes more widespread, the murder of millions of baby girls in China and India will cease.

I know that pro-lifers are conflicted over the issue of invitro-fertilization. But this story is wonderful.

[LPStar]

I doubt it will help much in India or China. This technology would be too expensive - much cheaper to just kill the girl.

I can't imagine wanting to use this method, but I suppose it's easy for me to say, having one boy and one girl. This isn't even IVF - it's just the same as artificial insemination, but with sperm selection first.

[cyborg]

Instead of abortion, girls won't be born at all. With that kind of price tag, I don't see it happening unless this is government sponsored there. I am very skeptical of IVF clinics already.

[PokeyJoe]

I'll only be happy when I can genetically select having straight kids,leaving homosexual fetus material in the trash bin.

"Oh, but there are so many great homosexuals," a gay apologist/rights activist says.

Well, it's about "choice" isn't it? - and my wife and I choose to have normal kids. We prefer that our kids not go through life with any genetic abnormalities.

"That's awful," they say - thinking about the implication.

and then .... they are converted.

Welcome a gay pro-life activist to the vast right wing conspiracy. =)

[luckystarmom]

I have a friend that did this. She desperately wanted a girl. After 3 boys, they tried this. Now she has a girl.

I don't know what to think of it.

[dpwiener]

Interesting article and interesting method. Especially since it avoids abortion-related disputes by separating out the sperm prior to fertilization.

[Chris Talk]

Despite all propaganda, homosexuality is NOT a genetic abnormality.

It is a SIN. Any person might be tempted to commit ANY sin, and if someone is tempted to do X, that is no worse than the next person who is tempted to do Y, just as bad.

Either person is fine as long as the temptation is not yielded to, and Society is fine as long as it does not start saying that the conduct is perfectly OK, not sinful.

Our fault, dear Brutus, lies not in our Stars-- nor in our Genes-- but in our Selves! And in the determination of sinners to avoid being interfered with in this world, even by people who merely LABEL the conduct as sinful!

[Nov3]

Isn't the story wonderful?

Are you joking or are you god?

[Chris Talk]

Maybe in ASIA, they would all choose boys.

Here in America, they will overwhelmingly choose GIRLS, as the article shows.

Girls can get affirmative action, and lots of college scholarships, and much better chance at good jobs.

Even better would be to choose the child to be BLACK or Hispanic as well, so that it could get civil rights, too!

[trebb]

Much better to leave it up to God and to worry more about the culture that says it's OK to kill baby girls - of course, our own culture doesn't care what the sex of the baby is; if "Mommy" will be inconvenienced, the kid is so much hamburger. I wonder of PETA cares...

[ComtedeMaistre]

>>Even better would be to choose the child to be BLACK or Hispanic as well, so that it could get civil rights, too!<<

I hope you are kidding. There are thousands of minority children in orphanages who cannot find families to adopt them, largely because of their skin color.

[Chris Talk]

What is an eight-letter word which means, "I have reason to doubt the veracity of what you have just said."

[codyjacksmom]

My husband and I have three girls. He would have loved to have a boy. Something like this would never be even entertained in our minds. We will let God be God and He will determine what sex our children are. We are thankful for the ones we have and don't question why.Our family is just how God intends it to be.

[steplock]

"If this technology becomes more widespread, the murder of millions of baby girls in China and India will cease. "

BS - it simply changes the percentages and will create even MORE chaos in those backwaters.

No? Think about it -- here we have "civilizations" that state that boys are better than girls. If they choose, they pick baby boys -- What do you think will happen when the boys outnumber the girls by double-digit percentages? Even with a single-digit percentage you will have an extreme increase in rape, prostitution, and murders (male-male).

Yeah --- let's have humanity play god and we will see the devil jumping with glee with the results.

[PokeyJoe]

I don't judge science to be propaganda, even if I don't like it. (ie: Smoking is bad, but I like Cigars).

I used my example because the gay community advocates the theory that gayness is caused by genetic code. This explains why they have no shame in their behavior, and also why they demand that their social acceptance be regarded as "normal".

BUT - the story in question leads into the theory a theory of ethics with regard to the value of human life.

I, on the other hand, argue an advocates position for the sake of winning the argument (all life is precious) and to display the false premise upon which their philosophy is based.

[CalKat]

It's rare to see a pro choice poster around here. Too bad you can't choose to have straight kids though.

[ComtedeMaistre]

>>Yeah --- let's have humanity play god and we will see the devil jumping with glee with the results.<<

They ARE already playing God in China and India, by killing millions of newly-born infant girls every year. They are doing that NOW!

Sex selection technology allows them to separate the sperm before actual conception. Abortions are avoided.

[PokeyJoe]

dood - you ever hear of a devils advocate? and who said I was pro-choice?

[Hildy]

I truly do not mean to be disrespectful, but your post has me wanting to make a point about the hypocrasy here at free Republic. You say your family is "just as God intended", and I agree. But let's say one of your children were born with a terrible malady. If there were no Dr. intervention, the baby would die. Wouldn't that be God's will? My point is that when it comes to human intervention when it comes to illness, I rarely hear about God's will.

[PokeyJoe]

think maybe I read your reply wrong.... I can always travel over to the DU and get TOZed. =)

[steplock]

I didn't say what they were doing now is correct - they are definitely NOT Christians doing this. The chinese are communist and the majority of the Indians are basically communist also.

Ever talk to an Indian and discuss their philosophies? You would realize why a 9000 year old civilization was surpassed by a 200 year old baby of a country brought forth by Christian Ethics.

[HoustonCurmudgeon]

You might want to think your joy through a bit more. If this becomes widespread there will be far more boy's born than girls.

[Henrietta]

"Girls can get affirmative action, and lots of college scholarships, and much better chance at good jobs. "

Oh, yeah, we girls get everthing handed to us on a silver platter. We don't have to lift a finger. /sarcasm

Your nasty comment denigrates the acheivements of many women, myself included, who didn't receive AA, and worked darned hard for everything we have. You owe us an apology, but I've a feeling we won't get one.

[Chris Talk]

Just so we both agree the premises on which the whole homosexualist conspiracy is based, is false.

This is just conduct, like any thing else. Like being a pro basketballer or pro footballer, one's genetics can give him or her a greater or lesser advantage or inclination toward some particular thing, but in the final analysis it is his/her upbringing and wishes and training, and the degree of his religious or social conditioniing, his parents attitudes or a hundred other things, that make the final package.

There is no substitute for individual responsibility. If being tempted excuses the crime, then murder and child molestation are perfectly OK! So why would a homosexual act be any different? The fact certain persons are tempted to do something the rest of us would NEVER do, does not give them any right to DO the thing they are tempted about, much less to have it be approved of-- or even tolerated at all!

[PokeyJoe]

exactly my point - and if homosexual "marriage" is deserving of recognition, then why not threesomes, foursomes, and ad infinitem. exactly.

[codyjacksmom]

No disrespect taken. I can understand the points you make. I do, however, believe that if one of my children were born with some sort of malady, it was because that was Gods intention. I believe that God gave us the gift of medicine and doctors to help people, not create and choose them.
Medical intervention is a wonderful thing, but, God does not intend everyone to be healed and that is for a reason unknown to us. I don't believe that it is correct for us to try to "improve" Gods will for our lives.