Nowadays, new forms of technology are being developed to accomplish just about any task and make any type of wish possible. That being said, many human beings throw caution to the wind and decide to take action to meet all of their wants and needs. When it comes to the process of procreation and bringing a child into the world, parents may find themselves hoping and wishing for one gender over another. To ensure that the gender they want matches the gender they get, parents can follow different processes to select the desired gender for their baby. Many people in today's world view these types of practices as unethical and moral, and some forms of religion reject the idea. “The prospect of preconception sex selection appears to pose the conflict – long present in other bioethical questions – between individual desires and the broader common good. Yet this carries the risk that children will be treated as vehicles for parental satisfaction rather than ends in themselves, and could accelerate the trend toward negative, or even positive, selection on offspring characteristics” (Robertson 3). In this argumentative essay, I will review the various areas of controversy surrounding this particular topic and focus on the immorality of such an act. Sex selection through prenatal diagnosis and abortion has existed since the 1970s. More recently, preimplantation sexing of embryos for transfer has been developed. Prenatal and preimplantation methods of sex selection are considered horribly unethical and impractical because they require abortion or a costly and intrusive cycle of in vitro fertilization and embryo disposal (Hill et al. 438). Through this process, if an embryo is found to be...... middle of paper ... selection an appropriate use of medical resources? J ASSIST REPROD GENET, 19 (058-0468 (Print), 9) 438 - 439.J Assist Reprod Genet. September 2002; 19(9): 400-410. doi: 10.1023/A:1016807605886J.G. Schenker. Sex selection: cultural and religious perspectives. J. Assist reproduction. Genet, 19 (9) (September 2002), pp. 400-410. Ethics Committee of the American Society of Reproductive Medicine. Preimplantation genetic diagnosis and sex selection. Fertilizer. Steril, 72 (1999), pp. 595-598Malpani, A. Preconception sex selection. American Journal of Bioethics 1.4 September 1, 2001: null. MIT Press. March 3, 2014.N. Gleicher, D. Barad, Does Sex Selection Devalue Women?, Fertility and Sterility, Volume 88, Supplement 1, September 2007, Page S260, ISSN 0015-0282, http://dx.doi.org /10.1016/j.fertnstert. 2007.07.887. (http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0015028207025435)