Baby Spain Blog

In October 2011 we published a blog post about Heather Von St James, an asbestos cancer surviving mum and kick-ass inspiration!

We’re happy to now share a video that Heather has put on her site about her story and how she has dealt with her diagnosis and what she does to stay positive and lead a normal lifeas much as possible for the sake of her family and daughter.
You can also read our original post here.

View Heather’s video here;

With the rapid development in health and medicine, it has now become possible for people to be able to choose the gender of their baby, should they really be keen on gender selection. New advances in this field are not only offering couples the choice of gender selection, but the modern procedures such as this one are guaranteeing near 100% accurate results. With this choice on offer, should we now consider selecting the gender of our babies an acceptable option? Should we disassociate ourselves from the stigma attached with such services?

For many, this question is an un-comfortable one. A lot of people around the world argue that the conception process should be natural and the pregnancy should be left to take its course without any outside intervention. But there may be situations where circumstances may warrant the use of the treatment. For example, couples may have a legitimate reason to undergo the treatment to balance their family.

There are also those that are subjected to extreme cultural pressures to have a boy. In very extreme cases, many of these cases end up aborting a child of the “wrong” gender. Would it not be better for these couples to be offered the gender selection treatment? Even if the child of the un-preferred gender is not aborted and brought into this world, there is a chance that the remainder of his/ her life may not be ideal because he/ she was not perfect child the couple wanted.

Serious consideration should be given to these types of issues before waging the “ethical” debate about gender selection. The treatment can be used to have a positive effect on families that may otherwise have suffered from issues such as those highlighted above.