Imagine these hypothetical scenarios.
1. Scientists discover that addiction to nicotine is caused by a gene mutation created by a virus that infects the baby in utero. In short order, medical researchers develop a vaccine that, if inoculated into the baby before 5 months term, prevents the gene mutation and enables her offspring to live without nicotine addition.
Should the mother have the vaccine injected into the baby?
2. Scientists discover that alcoholism is caused by a gene mutation created by a virus that infects the baby in utero. Soon, medical researchers develop a vaccine that, if inoculated into the baby before 5 months term, prevents the gene mutation and enables her offspring to live without alcoholism.
Should the mother have the vaccine injected into the baby?
3. Scientists discover, in a controlled, double-blind study of a prison population, that men who have insufficient levels of several vitamins are more violent than the general population of men. When the violent prisoners were given supplemental vitamins, their violent temperaments and behavior dramatically decreased. Shortly thereafter, pharmaceutical companies develop a vitamin pump that can be implanted in utero in male babies at 5 months term to supply those vitamins, thereby decreasing possible violent tendencies of the babies in childhood and later.
Should the mother have the vitamin pump implanted her male baby?
4. Scientists discover that left-handedness and schizophrenia in men are caused by too much testosterone in the development of the male baby before birth. Medical researchers develop a procedure to recify the expression of testosterone through injections in utero in the fourth month of term.
Should a mother whose male baby tests positive for hyper-testosteronitis have doctors correct the expression of testosterone in the baby?
5. Scientists discover how to change the sex of a baby by genetic manipulation in second month of term.
Should scientists make available to pregnant women openly and freely the opportunity to select their baby's biological sex?
6. Scientists discover that male homosexuality is caused a malfunction in mother's immune system. The mother's antibodies attempt to reject the male baby in the womb. The antibodies damage the baby resulting in indefinite sex determination. Medical researchers develop a therapy which involves temporary suppression of the mother's immune system during the formative months of the baby's sexual development in the womb, allowing male babies to develop as heterosexual males.
Should a woman take the therapy to prevent her male baby being born homosexual?
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