What I really want for my children is that they be loved and that they be happy and that they lead a good life.
Michael SandelIn some parts of the world, that sex selection for boys - and it's usually for boys - reflects sex discrimination against girls, and it leads to very large imbalances - in China, in Korea, in India - in the population between boys and girls, a vast disproportion of boys to girls, and it reflects really this discriminatory attitude toward girls.
Michael SandelI think it would be a great tragedy to devote medical resources and genetic technological breakthroughs to purposes that are not to do with health or medicine, but instead are to do with satisfying the desires that are created by the consumer society.
Michael SandelI would include non-medical sex selection as one of those practices that I think is morally questionable and that can carry adverse social consequences.
Michael Sandel