Sex preselection
"This isn't what we ordered - I want a refund! Let me talk to your boss!" "Life was so ...
Date: 2008
From: Moreu, Michael, 1969-: [Digital cartoons published in the Christchurch Press and Fairfax Media]
Reference: DCDL-0006901
Description: Shows a stork holding a baby in a cloth hanging from its bill. It has landed on the steps of a house to deliver the baby but the man of the house reads the order form and angrily states that this is not what they ordered and that they want a refund. Refers to reports that it should be possible to choose the sex of a baby conceived through IVF treatment. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
'Good Evans'. 'Parents able to choose gender of expected offspring'. "Give us a Lord Ma...
Date: 2008
From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0006948
Description: A 'GOOD EVANS' cartoon. Shows a huge pregnant woman called 'Auckland' and a little husband who is Mayor of Auckland City, John Banks. They are visiting the Royal Commission because John Banks wants a child who will be Lord Mayor of Auckland. Refers to the fact that technology is available for the sex selection of a child and also the issue of combining all the mayoralties of Auckland into one super mayor. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
'Designer births'. 'Girls rival boys with booze and violence'. "A boy or a girl?" "What...
Date: 2008
From: Hubbard, James, 1949-: Digital caricatures and cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0007176
Description: Shows a couple sitting in the office of a specialist in designer births. After seeing an article that says that girls rival boys with booze and violence they ask him if he has any alternative to boys or girls. Refers to the scientific breakthrough that will allow parents undergoing IVF treatment to chose the gender of their baby. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
'Good Evans'. 'Debate over parents' right to choose their baby's gender-' "We don't min...
Date: 2008
From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0006950
Description: A 'GOOD EVANS' cartoon. Shows a lesbian couple telling the doctor that they don't mind what gender their baby will be as long as it's gay. Refers to fact that technology is ready for parents to select the gender of their child. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
'Good Evans'. 'NZ Bioethics Council recommends government approve parents right to choo...
Date: 2008
From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0006889
Description: A 'GOOD EVANS' cartoon. Shows a small boy hauling a long snake to show his mother. The text states that the New Zealand Bioethics Council recommends that the government approve parents right to choose the sex of their offspring. Could be that boys brings horrid things to show their mothers and girls wouldn't. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
'Designer babies' "That one!" 23 June, 2008
Date: 2008
From: Ekers, Paul, 1961-:[Digital cartoons published in the New Zealand Herald and other publications]
Reference: DCDL-0006921
Description: Shows a petrie dish in which many sperm swim. Someone pushes a pipette into the the swimming mass and targets one. Refers to scientific breakthroughs that will make the ability to select for sex during IVF treatment relatively easy. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
'Parents may get to choose their child's sex'. "Bloody world's gone mad, mate... As I r...
Date: 2008
From: Tremain, Garrick, 1941- :[Digital cartoons published in the Otago Daily Times]
Reference: DCDL-0006860
Description: Shows two men sitting on a bus-stop bench. One of them is reading a report in the paper about parents being able to choose the sex of their child. The second man misreads the heading of the report and comments that he remembers that all the fun was in finding your own sex. Refers to the news that choosing the sex of a baby is technically possible thanks to advances in fertility treatments that allow doctors to create or identify embryos of a certain sex. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
'Good Evans'. "Hey! - Science can now let parents choose their baby's gender." "Call me...
Date: 2008
From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0006947
Description: A 'GOOD EVANS' cartoon. Shows a male and a female symbol, the female reading a newspaper headed 'moral debate' and the male a newspaper about 'child abuse'. The female says that parents can now choose their baby's gender and the male says that he wants to be called when babies can choose their parents. Refers to the moral debate about whether parents should be able to choose their baby's gender now that the technology is available and also about the degree of child abuse in New Zealand. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).
'Good Evans'. 'New lamps said to shed less light'. 'Government approved compact fluores...
Date: 2008
From: Evans, Malcolm Paul, 1945- :Digital cartoons
Reference: DCDL-0006890
Description: A 'GOOD EVANS' cartoon. Shows two of the new fluorescent light bulbs that the government wants to phase in as a means of saving energy and also shows a genie's lamp from which a plume of smoke in the shape of a foetus floats. The Bioethics Council is recommending that the government approve the ability to choose the sex of a child. The first two lamps are 10 and 8 'watt' and the genie produces 'what'. A play on the words 'watt' and 'what'. Quantity: 1 digital cartoon(s).