News Log Number Fourteen

Would you ever choose the gender of you baby if you could? A lot of people said that they would. On CNN.com there was an article that talked about people choosing the gender of their unborn child. A technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is used to test embryos to see if they carry any type of disease that one of the parents may have carried. This same technique (PGD) can be used to choose the gender of the unborn child. Some people are thrilled about this idea because if they have one child of one gender then they could choose the gender of their second child to balance out the family. Some people are not happy about gender choosing because they fear that people will be more likely to choose a gender more dominant in their country.

My Response: Personally I think that it is great that people are able to choose the gender of their child. It could benefit people when it comes to what they want their family to be. For people that don't like the gender choosing, they should just not use that technique. Overall I think this could have a good outcome.

News Log Number 13

Flu test gone wrong? In this article nine year old Hayli Murphy was misdiagnosed. After having a high fever, Hayli's mother took her to the hospital. The hospital said that there was nothing wrong with her at the time, and that she just had a cold. They didn't give her any medication and sent her home. The next day when her fever went up to 104 degrees, Hayli's mother rushed her right back to the hospital, only to be told she had the bad case of the flu. The doctors gave Hayli medicine, but when it wasn't working, Hayli's mother started asking questions. It turns out that the first night Hayli went to the hospital she had symptoms of the H1N1 virus, that the doctors seemed to have missed. Hayli spent 43 days in an intensive care unit while being treated.

My response: I think that it's bad that Hayli was misdiagnosed. Her being in the hospital could have been prevented if doctors checked her out thoroughly, and maybe even kept her overnight for observation.