Wednesday, 5/28/2014, 7 – 8:15 p.m. PDT
“It’s a Boy! The Ethics of Sex Selection”
Dr. Inmaculada de Melo-Martín Professor of Medical Ethics Weill Cornell Medical College Cornell University
Is it ethically permissible to select embryos of a particular sex for social reasons? Often proponents of this practice defend it by appealing to the value of procreative liberty. Inmaculada de Melo-Martín argues that, although this framework has some appealing features, it is problematic in the context of sex selection for social reasons. In…