Screening Babies for Gender

Welcome to Every Thought Captive, I’m Phil Steiger.

If you could genetically screen your next child, what might be some good reasons to do so? Scientists can now screen for many harmful diseases and potential problems, and a growing population of parents is screening embryos so their children will not be born with problems such as cystic fibrosis. But an alarming number of parents are beginning to screen embryos based on gender.

According to a recent study, as many as 42 percent of the clinics that provide this kind of service to parents performed the screening purely for gender purposes.

When parents select their babies just because they are a boy or a girl, it reflects the narcissism rampant in our culture today. For these parents, having children is more about them than it is for the kids. What is next? Should we start rejecting children for their hair or eye color? In this kind of Brave New World, Christians need to stand up for God’s kind of unconditional love.

This has been Every Thought Captive, a Christian worldview minute sponsored by Quail Lake Community Church. For more information, please visit quaillake.org.