@article{1386202,
      recid = {1386202},
      author = {Murphy, Timothy F.,},
      title = {Ethics, sexual orientation, and choices about children /},
      pages = {1 online resource (195 pages).},
      abstract = {Parents routinely turn to prenatal testing to screen for  genetic or chromosomal disorders or to learn their child's  sex. What if they could use similar prenatal interventions  to learn (or change) their child's sexual orientation?  Bioethicists have debated the moral implications of this  still-hypothetical possibility for several decades. Some  commentators fear that any scientific efforts to understand  the origins of homosexuality could mean the end of gay and  lesbian people, if parents shy away from having homosexual  children. Others defend parents' rights to choose the  traits of their children in general and see no reason to  treat sexual orientation differently. In this book, Timothy  Murphy traces the controversy over prenatal selection of  sexual orientation, offering a critical review of the  literature and presenting his own argument in favor of  parents' reproductive liberty. Arguing against commentators  who want to restrict the scientific study of sexual  orientation or technologies that emerge from that study,  Murphy proposes a defense of parents' right to choose.  This, he argues, is the only view that helps protect  children from hurtful family environments, that is  consistent with the increasing powers of prenatal  interventions, and that respects human futures as something  other than accidents of the genetic lottery.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1386202},
}