In: Biology
Discuss why progress in biotechnology, particularly the advances in sex selection, calls for consideration of modern ethics.
Advances in biotechnology resulted from unrestricted and unlimited research disregarding many essentials of a researchs including the ethical issues of unwanted pregnancies and abortions can be avoided.
Medical issues including X-linked disease, has encouraged couples to select modern techniques and principles of biotechnology in selecting the gender of their children. Sex-selection via biotechnology often consider the reproductive rights, and it also allow the couples to make a well-informed and well-planned family. The biotechnology or genetic technology and services may be used to select sex, that has a wide range of ethical, legal and social implications.
In some regions, there are strict rules to control the use of this technology, while some of the methods are costly and even risky. They also involve ethical considerations such as legitimacy of the conceived fetus. Ethical issues raised by sex selection consider the distortion of the natural sex ratio leading gender imbalance.