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Submitted on 10/14/2003
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Are there ethical issues associated with choosing the sex of a child? What are the ramifications of the potential for the parents worldwide to select the gender of their children? Is it ethical to limit reproduction, as in China's public policy? If potential parents were concerned about hemophilia, would it be ethical to choose not to have a male child? What dilemma results if technology fails and a male child is created? Is it ethical to use selective abortion when multiple fetuses develop due to In Vitro Fertilization? What is the history of man's active attempts to manipulate the characteristics of unborn children? Could casual gender selection lead to a broader use of other reproductive technology, such as cloning? What are medical ethicists? How are they trained? How might they help resolve the issue presented in the scenario?

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