A bar too high: why we should not bar parents from knowing the sex of their fetus

In her article, 'Why Parents Should Not Be Told the Sex of Their Fetus' Tamara Browne sets herself a challenging task. She argues that, in the interest of fighting gender essentialism, parents ought not to be told the sex of their fetus even when they request it. This is a very high bar for her arguments to hurdle. Many commentators, myself included, have argued that it would be better for parents not to know, and that parents ought not to seek to find out, the sex of their fetus. I have suggested, for example, that parents not be routinely provided with this information, but be required to ask for it, thus shifting the default.1 But it is one thing to claim that parents should voluntarily refrain from finding out, and another to argue that they should be barred from doing so.

There are a number of perspectives from which…

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