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My question is this: Are we playing God when we have the ability to chose the gender of our baby or our we just using the skills God gave us to do what we do as humans?
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Are we neatly sidestepping the issue of whether the foetus is sentient* or not here? 'Cause IMO it's where the action's at. Ethically speaking, if you believe the foetus is human, then it's a form of child abuse.
But, to answer your question: how are we playing god? I'd argue manipulating the gender of your child isn't divine. There's very little miracle to it, simply scientific rituals. Making an infertile person fertile is closer to biblical examples of god dabbling in midwifery, and deeply more miraculous.
*For my own ethical purposes, I only place moral value in sentience. You may say "human" or "a person", you get the idea?