OK. Do you think a couple should be able choose between having a daughter or son?

[Honeycombe8]

60. There's no need to be rude. The OP asked a theoretical opinion question...

posters have replied.

What each of us BELIEVES is our right, and our opinion. The question was not, "Do you think you have a right to prevent someone else from choosing gender of a child?" Then the question, even then, would've had to have defined "choosing," since his question about choosing was not, IMO, a "choice." Using creams and such to try to have a specific gender is not choosing a gender.

Read the question again, and then read the responses, incl. mine. This is not a discussion of preventing others from doing anything.

BTW, there is a "choosing" option that has been used before: In China, when the govt decreed that families could have only one or two children, women were killing their female babies. That's because sons were more helpful in the farm fields. That is what I would call choosing. But who are WE to interfere in someone else's choice, huh?

Women have been using creams, sex positions, and other things for many years to try to have one gender or another. It's a natural human thing to have a preference for just about anything. It doesn't mean you wouldn't want and be happy with either, though. You are not "choosing."