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Outside of religious debate, I would have to say that my fears of damaging the fragile chromosones of my unborn child would lead be to decline any offers from doctors about setting my offspring's sex.
I realize that determining basic characteristics, such as sex, goes hand in hand with genetic screening for predisposition to disease, and disorders. I can also see that this is the natural progression of medicine (making healthier people and addressing any future medical problems via genetics). But, because of this field's current pioneering existence, I am unwilling to place my future son or daughter at risk for receiving irreparable harm at the genetic level simply because the father, myself, is selfish enough to only want a boy. To be quite honest, when I reach that stage in my life (fatherhood), I will be completely happy with whomever my wife gives birth, exactly as they are.
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