The ability of parents to select the sex of their child has been made possible by the advancement of technology with fertility procedures. Today's parents want the ability to choose the sex of their baby, and there are so many reasons why a couple would want to go down this path. John A. Robertson of Extending Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis says one of the main reasons is that there are serious diseases that could be prevented by sex selection using preimplantation genetic diagnosis. In contrast, Marcy Darnovsky of Revisiting Sex Selection: The growing popularity of new sex selection methods revives an old debate; believe that parents should not have the right to choose the sex of their child. It provides support that suggests that selecting a child's sex is a slippery slope down the road to eugenics. Both sides of the issue offer strong points about whether parents can choose the sex of their child. Historically gender selection has been a part of our society for decades, it may not be the most popular method, but couples have used all options. Couples who wanted neither a boy nor a girl left the child at the door of a church, a fire station or an orphanage. Some would take even more drastic measures such as killing the unwanted child. Some societies continue to use these practices, however parents today have more advanced options for sex selection. There are technologies such as ultrasound that can determine the sex of a baby; therefore parents can choose to abort or adopt if they are not satisfied with the sex of the child. In other countries like China, where they have a policy where the government supports only one child, there has been a lot of pressure on sex selection. Although there are methods that Ame...... middle of paper ......ms and technological change (6th ed., pp. 485-491). Boston, MA: McGraw-Hill. The Ethics Committee. (1999) Sex selection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Retrieved November 11, 2013, from http://www.asrm.org/uploadedFiles/ASRM_Content/News_and_Publications/Ethics_Committee_Reports_and_Statements/Sex_Selection.pdfLeigh, S. (1999) Choosing the sex of your baby: what scientists say. Retrieved November 11, 2013, from http://www.babycenter.com/0_choosing-your-babys-sex-what-the-scientists-say_2915.bc?page=1BMJ. (2001) Sex selection and preimplantation genetic diagnosis. Retrieved November 11, 2013, from http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1121384/