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Gay Gene? Really? I don't see how you can compare that to abortions in the first place. Abortions may be required in a couple of different scenarios. 1. woman's life is in danger 2. Rape/incest Now on a lessor level you have women who do it for their own personal reasons that is between them and their God.
As far as keeping them from having a gay child, I feel that is absolutely assinine! For one, a child might become gay through some external factor (rape/incest/mistreatment) or might just fall in love with someone else who just happens to be of the same sex. Secondly, what if that child is born and is actually happy being gay? You know as repulsive as it may seem to some of you it does happen
While I am politically anti-abortion, I have no problem with having parents decide whether or not their offspring will be gay/transgender/et cetera before this offspring is conceived if such an option ever becomes available. I also have no problem with people changing their own sexuality/gender identity/et cetera in the future if such an option ever becomes available.
Gay Gene? Really? I don't see how you can compare that to abortions in the first place. Abortions may be required in a couple of different scenarios. 1. woman's life is in danger 2. Rape/incest Now on a lessor level you have women who do it for their own personal reasons that is between them and their God.
As far as keeping them from having a gay child, I feel that is absolutely assinine! For one, a child might become gay through some external factor (rape/incest/mistreatment) or might just fall in love with someone else who just happens to be of the same sex. Secondly, what if that child is born and is actually happy being gay? You know as repulsive as it may seem to some of you it does happen
If a genetic basis for homosexuality is established and further work is done to provide the technology for fixing the genetic code what say those who beleive GOD is a all powerful inerrant creator? GOD created mankind and made that very same genetic code. HE chose every bit of it and HE doesn't make mistakes or does HE. What will those of faith have to give up or question in our approaching brave new world , that GOD is the creator, that GOD is infallable or that GOD is turning over the future of mankind to mankind and no longer cares what we do one way or another. Also, will those who benefit or undergo genetic engineering no longer be his children and may over time cease to be in HIS image.
You are assuming that God exists and that the Judaeo-Christian views about God are correct. Neither of these things/premises have been conclusively proven to be true yet, so yeah.
If not only because it passes on my genetic markers, and that of my forefathers better.
Actually, it probably isn't as hard for gay people to reproduce as you think it is. Sure, they would probably be unable to reproduce completely in the way that straight people do, but there is an easy way for them to reproduce which does not involve IVF and/or et cetera.
If you feel abortion should stay legal and it should be the choice of the woman then do you believe it should be legal and the parent's choice to repair the X chromosome that has been reported to cause homosexuality in men if that ever becomes an option?
If this "gay gene" you're talking about actually exists, can be identified and repaired, then yes, of course I believe the parents should be allowed to do so. Homosexuality is an abnormality, an imbalance imho. Wouldn't you want a mother to be able to repair other imbalances if it was possible, like Downs Syndrome? Schitzophrenia? So whats the difference? Why is this even a question?
By the time society has advanced to a point of being able to determim sexuality by genes...society will have advanced far enough to look at altering a fetus' potential sexuality by gene munipulation...like persent society looks at female child genital mutilation by 3rd world tribes people.
In the future only the backward would consider sexuality gene reassignment.
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Actually, it probably isn't as hard for gay people to reproduce as you think it is. Sure, they would probably be unable to reproduce completely in the way that straight people do, but there is an easy way for them to reproduce which does not involve IVF and/or et cetera.
It's not at all hard for them to reproduce. Actually homophobia helps them to reproduce -- families put pressure on them to marry heterosexually and many do and they have families the usual way.
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