Word: genderism
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While the gender gap has obvious effects onblack women, black men say they are affected inequally serious ways...
...these latter years of a life lived in pursuit of equality, we can at last look upon our own country as one in which citizens, regardless of race, gender or creed, share equal political rights and opportunities for development, we do so with great gratitude towards the millions upon millions all around the world who materially and morally supported our struggled for freedom and justice...
Regarding the argument that choosing gender goes against nature: the same objection was used in earlier times by people horrified by vaccines or heart transplants, which are now completely acceptable. Every time we use medicine to cure a disease or prevent a death, we go against nature--willingly. Admittedly, sex selection for family balancing cures no disease. In fact, though, no form of babymaking solves a medical problem. Sex selection, moreover, is medically benign in comparison with most reproductive technologies. No surgery is involved, and the entire process can theoretically be performed without a physician. Children born through this process...
...breakthrough is based on the long-known fact that sperm have a gender, in a manner of speaking: some carry an X chromosome and some carry a Y. If the former fertilizes an egg, the baby will be a girl; if the latter, a boy. Over the years, fertility gurus have tried to boost production of X- or Y-bearing sperm through diet, or attempted to pick out Ys by their supposedly faster swimming speed or distinct electric charge--with dubious success...
...impulse to choose a baby's gender is probably older than human history, and prospective parents have tried no end of ingenious ways to do it. In ancient Greece, men would lie on their right side during sex to guarantee a boy; in 18th century France they would tie off their left testicle for the same result. Medieval Germans preferred to put a hammer under the bed to produce a boy, while their Danish cousins placed scissors there to make a girl. None of it worked, of course, and despite impressive advances in other aspects of reproductive science, modern medicine...