Baby Parenting Is a Wonderful

¶ … Baby Parenting is a wonderful experience that any individual might have desired. To have children is considered by almost every couple as a blessing. It is a fact that when a woman is pregnant with a child, the parents-to-be usually has a specific wish for the gender of their baby. This is one of the reasons why Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) has been researched and formulated by scientists.

PGD is a scientific way of making come true the gender of the baby that parents want, the specific gender that mothers or fathers want it to be. So, if you are about to become a father or a mother, don't you think you would also wish for a baby girl or a baby boy? One of the top reasons why some people argue that PGD should not take place is due to ethics and moral concerns.

According to Kathleen Parker, in her article Baby Making Needs a Surprise or Two, PGD may only lead to a rise in abortion. She said that if a mistake occurs, when the parents didn't get the right gender of the baby that they want, such situation may lead to abortion. The article further indicates that Sex selection also adds a prickly new dimension to the abortion issue. If you order a girl and mistakenly get a boy, do you abort? Of course, you certainly may, and some have.

However, is abortion really the big problem or the unethical issue that PGD may lead to? I believe that abortion is not a problem that will be caused by PGD. Instead, I believe that PGD can eliminate abortion.

If PGD is a scientific way of making the parents' dream child, in terms of gender, come true, isn't it a more precise way of getting the child that you want than the normal pregnancy where you don't have a choice of what gender your baby will be? Doesn't it result to a greater accuracy of providing parents with the child that they want? I believe that it is so.

Therefore, the question is, in which type of pregnancy will there be a greater percentage of abortion? it's definitely not in PGD pregnancy because PGD pregnancy provides parents with the kind of child that they want. Who would want to abort a child that they dreamt of? It is in fact the normal pregnancy where a higher rate of abortion may exist because there is a 50% by 50% chance that a mother will bear the child that she or her husband wants.

In contrast, in PGD, because it is a scientific and tested way, a mother can be assured of a higher percentage than 50% in delivering the baby with the gender that she wishes for. Another reason why PGD should be accepted is because it is a method of balancing families. There are sometimes families who do not have even a girl or a boy, but have quite a number of children with the same gender.

Sometimes, such situation causes unhappy families due to disappointments of a parent who may want to have a child with the gender other.