If a pill could be found that prevented the birth of homosexuals, would it be widely used?

[anotheoldgit]

http://tinyurl.com/275felq

/// Dr Dreger and her colleagues are concerned that medical attempts to prevent homosexuality will arise in the future if sexual orientation is found to be determined by human biology.///

/// 'Evidence that homosexual orientation is inborn, could very well lead to new means of pathologisation [treating it like a medical condition] and prevention,' they warned in a recent paper.///

[jackthehat]

If I had the power, all expectant mothers would be given a pill which made their off-spring completely unconcerned with, or by, the sexual preferences of their peers......

[Sqad]

JTH....that will come, if it is not already here, without your pill.

[Kromovaracun]

"Since you are the only homosexual on the site that I know of for sure, I am going to ask you a question but I don't wish for you to take offence.

'At an early age you were given the choice of being a homosexual or a heterosexual what would you have chosen? "

I know this is directed at SP, but I'd also like to answer it as it's consistent with your question. (Plus your question implies that if there were others you were sure of, you'd ask them too). But sorry if I'm butting in anyhow.

If at an early age you hypothetically put two buttons in front of me, and I could determine my sexual orientation by pushing one of them, I would have without a shadow of a doubt pushed the heterosexual one, simply out of reasoning it out that if I was going to go for one, it may as well be the easier one.

But that's pretty much because at that point I wouldn't have had any experience to go off. Now at age 20, I am genuinely glad that I'm gay and not straight for a variety of reasons. I've met people and made friends who have shaped me that I wouldn't have met otherwise. And despite being a middle-class white male, I also have an idea of what it's like to be in a minority. So if you put the two buttons in front of me now, I wouldn't change it.

[andy-hughes]

jack, in response to your question about parents' concerns - or not - about the sexuality of their children - which i think links in with my earlier point -

During pregnancy, any parent wants a healthy happy fully-formed baby, but when puberty arrives for your child, you want them to be safe, secure, and happy what ever sexuality gives them.

My only concern with my daughters was their happiness and fulfilment, and I would do my utmost to help them to achieve that - and if they were gay, I would redouble my efforts, given, as i said, the hostile world in which they would be living, they would need the unconditional love and support of their family all the more.

I entirely agree with your sentiment - sexuality should not matter at all, in an ideal world, but this is not an ideal world, and to the majority, it does matter.

I can see massively raised levels of acceptence in my childrens' generati0n compauired with mine, and certainly with my parents - long may that continue.

[ummmm]

Not that I have seen Tony. I was thinking something like that. We have so many tests in pregnancy and then an option to abort if we do not like the results. If someone is arguing for natural selection then maybe these tests should stop.

[jackthehat]

I don't think it is sensible to try to equate homosexuality with debilitating physical conditions like spina bifida or Downs.........

[Sqad]

tonyted....;-)

[jackthehat]

If she takes the pill, she will definitely have a heterosexual child..........if she doesn't there is only a 50/50 (in simple terms) chance that she'll have a gay child.

I wouldn't have taken such a pill.......

[andy-hughes]

tonyted and ummmm - I think there has to be a perceived difference between the facility to prevent an unborn child from having a disability which is going to directly affect their life from birth to death, and an aspect of their humanity which must be left to nature in the same way as eye and hair colour - to interfere is the top of a seriously nasty slippery slope.

[jno]

jack, such a pill doesn't exist. The one under discussion apparently does, so consideration of it isn't on quite the same footing.

[ummmm]

I agree Andy...but there was a time that we didn't have a choice. Now we are getting more and more choice.

Personally I wouldn't take a pill to make sure my child is hetrosexual.

[Bobbisox]

so what!
what ever people do with each others consent should be left up to that person(s)
gay/straight or pink with polka dots, I couldn't give a dam really, as long as they don't rape or murder...leave be