4 The ethics of selecting for fetal sex

Young, Robert L.

doi:10.1016/s0950-3552(05)80259-7

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“…Yet, even in Asia, it is not clear that sex selection should be banned (Young 1991). Disturbed sex ratios may not be a bad thing (Singer and Wells 1984, 171).…”

Section: Culture Health and Sexuality 141mentioning

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Reproductive technologies and the quality of offspring in Asia: reproductive pioneering and moral pragmatism?

Sleeboom-Faulkner

2010

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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This paper highlights a number of theoretical issues relevant to this special issue of Culture, Health & Sexuality on the quality of offspring, including gender selection, ecofeminism, eugenics, reproductive agency, moral pioneering and reproductive pragmatism in China, India and Japan. First, it discusses various approaches to choice in sex selection, focusing on an instrumentalist and an ecofeminist approach. Second, it discusses issues of reproductive choice in the light of various concepts of eugenics and power, which have been used to characterise the relationship between the state, the individual and prenatal genetic testing. Third, it queries Foucault's notion of biopower in relation to reproductive agency. In reviewing the evidence, the chapter raises questions about how women and parents in Asian societies can be understood in terms of 'reproductive pragmatism', 'empowerment' and/or 'moral pioneering' when faced with the use of new reproductive technologies in modern societies.

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“…Yet, even in Asia, it is not clear that sex selection should be banned (Young 1991). Disturbed sex ratios may not be a bad thing (Singer and Wells 1984, 171).…”

Section: Culture Health and Sexuality 141mentioning

confidence: 99%

Reproductive technologies and the quality of offspring in Asia: reproductive pioneering and moral pragmatism?

Sleeboom-Faulkner

2010

Culture, Health & Sexuality

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“…• hybridisation [FISH]) and single gene disorders suchã s cystic fibrosis or haemophilia (by DNA probe or I polymerase chain reaction amplification of specific ';!DNA sequences). In Australia, there are two FISH kits I currently in use: one tests for chromosomes13,16,18,21,22 and the other for 13, 18,21, X and Y. FISH can thus be used for embryo sexing.…”

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Sex selection: the case for

Savulescu

1999

Medical Journal of Australia

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“…To defend against arguments that sex selection is inherently sexist, regardless of situation, Pennings argues with Warren (1987; see also Pennings 1996) and Young (1991) that sex selection in the case of family balancing is not necessarily the result of any sexist motivations; the desire for balance may follow, he says, from an appreciation of the differences between the sexes (Pennings 1996, 2342). Parents who believe that these differences are a positive and important part of what differentiates one person from another may feel strongly that their parenting experience would be the most rewarding if they experienced a fuller range of human variation in their children.…”

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“Before You Formed in the Womb I Knew You”: Sex Selection and Spaces of Ambiguity

Mudde¹

2010

Hypatia

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The spaces provided by biotechnologies of sex selection are rich with epistemological, ontological, and ethical considerations that speak to broadly held social values and epistemic frameworks. In much of the discourse about sex selection that is not medically indicated, the figure of the “naturally” conceived (future) child is treated as a problem for parents who want to select the sex of their child. As unknown, that child is ambiguous in terms of sex—“it” is both and neither, and might be the “wrong” sex. Drawing on Beauvoirean thinking about ambiguity and desire, I cast part of the desire to select the sex of a child as bound to an ethic and epistemology of disambiguation, and urge that the space of being-unknown is one to which each person is entitled.

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4 The ethics of selecting for fetal sex

Cited by 4 publications

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Reproductive technologies and the quality of offspring in Asia: reproductive pioneering and moral pragmatism?

Reproductive technologies and the quality of offspring in Asia: reproductive pioneering and moral pragmatism?

Sex selection: the case for

“Before You Formed in the Womb I Knew You”: Sex Selection and Spaces of Ambiguity

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