Jobs for the boys and girls

Perry de Havilland notes that:

The Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) has announced that it will be pressing for a ban on using technological techniques to allow parents to choose the gender of their children.

One can come up with all kinds of reasons why the HFEA might want to do that (distasteful to the majority of British people, we shouldn't play God etc) but there is only one true reason.

The HFEA has been influenced by the state to take this position because the state is worried that we will either:

i. all choose to have girls, in which case there will not be enough boys to satisfy demand for soldiers

or

ii. all choose to have boys, in which case there will not be enough girls to satisfy demand for secretaries.

Why are you all looking at me funny?

Posted by JohnJo at November 12, 2003 12:28 PM | TrackBack