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“Would you take a magic pill to make yourself straight?” asked<\/a> an audience member at a GLBT forum at Winona State University in Minnesota. The concept is not pure fantasy: scientists have flipped a genetic switch<\/a> to make female mice homosexual and rogue pediatric endocrinologist, Maria New, has been giving<\/a> mothers dexamethasone to prevent lesbian daughters. Pre-implantation genetic diagnostics, combined with in-vitro fertilization, is making it possible to select out genetic defects and disorders, and to select for <\/em>desirable traits. The science of sexuality is driving us towards a future in which we may have the option to choose our child’s sexual orientation. This scenario poses a few questions:<\/p> <\/span>1. Is choosing the sexual orientation of a new child an ethical act, regardless of the orientation chosen?<\/p> 2. Would it be ethical to make all of one’s children a single orientation? All homosexual? All attracted to women?<\/p> 3. Is it ethical to cure pathological sexualities, such as pedophilia<\/a>?<\/p> Our culture reserves some of the largest swaths of freedom for procreation and child-rearing. Where does one draw the line? I don’t have answers. I open it to you, dear readers.<\/p> Photo: Triplées by Raphael Goetter<\/a><\/em> via Flickr<\/em><\/p> “Would you take a magic pill to make yourself straight?” asked an audience member at a GLBT forum at Winona State University in Minnesota. The concept is not pure fantasy: scientists have flipped a genetic switch to make female mice … Continue reading <\/a>
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