There is no doubt that modern society is pretty bad, and getting worse.

I agree there should be a ban on abortions for this purpose. However I think it would be permitted for IVF. In contrast to most of Asia, Australia's cultural preferences favour girls.

(sorry about the typo above: "would be permitted..." should read "should be permitted...")

In summary, the author wishes for the state to impose the Bible even over the unbiblical. Why not the Koran?

My views are clear in this matter: the state, itself an immoral secular body, has no jurisdiction over morality, birth or death. While we all shall eventually stand to be judged before God in these matters, the state should neither ban nor support/finance neither birth nor death.

On the topic, people ought to ask themselves why they want a child in the first place. Now would their desire for a child indeed be fulfilled by having one? Then could that fulfillment depend on the gender of the child? The answer to both would be "unlikely!".

In primitive agrarian societies, parents-to-be often wish for sons who will be stronger and heavier, thus be able to push the plowshare deeper into the ground and produce better crops so they won't be hungry when old: selfish but understandable. Should they succeed, their sons will be short of brides, become sexually frustrated, quarrelsome and start wars instead.

In developed urban societies, already extremely overpopulated, desires to bring even more children to the world are not only selfish and damaging, but also neurotic. Careful introspection over one's motives should prevent not only gender-selection, but procreation in general.

I respectfully disagree. Couples who are planning a family should be able to choose how, when and what they conceive! It's nobody else's business!

For mine it shouldn't include pregnancy followed by abortion. But rather by implanting embryos whose sex is known? Other than that, given a personal choice, a healthy baby!
Alan B.

Sex selection is not harmful unless it leads to an imbalance. If equal numbers select a boy as a girl to "complete" their family there is zero harm.

In china the roughly 117 boys are born for 100 girls. This is a huge problem considering the birth rate is already falling.