Choosy parents do it in the US

The Newpaper pg13, Thurs 15th june 2006

I am surprised to learn that there are already couples in the US who practise gender selection and that the number is growing. Personally i feel that gender selection is a rather unnatural thing to do as we are in a way messing with nature. The sex of a baby is suppose to be a mystery and the revelation of the baby's sex is one of the many surprises and joy that a married couple experiences, and to take that away would make it feel that we are missing out on one of the great wonders of having a baby. Also by choosing the right sperm to fertilise the egg to get the right sex of the baby is sort of tampering with nature. By choosing the right sperm for the right sex we are choosing the baby we want to have, and in the process we are in reality denying the existence of a child that could have been if a couple decided to have a baby the natural way as it could have been any one of the other sperms to fertilise the egg. Then we will never know who that special baby might have been, one so special that he/she was not chosen by us but by God, a wonderful mystery gift from the heavens. There is a reason why the natural way of having babies does not allow us to choose the sex, and i believe we should respect it and not try to change it. As we all know nature is amazing and we should not mess with it. I shudder to think what the world will be like if we all started choosing the sex of our babies in the future, does that mean then we would all have to rely on machines and science to have a baby?