In the Article "Pick a Sex, any Sex" by Jeanne Sager she uses compare and contrast to get her point across, but at the same time she uses an appeal to the readers ethics to make her real point. By comparing and contrasting different methods of being able to choose the sex of your baby she shows how great of lengths people will go to just to guarantee they have a boy or girl. Overall though her tone and diction throughout the piece suggest that she is more a believer in the natural way and thinks the surprise of what sex your baby is should be just that, a surprise, and in the delivery room. That's how it has always been, and from her point of view choosing a babies sex before it is conceived is against her ethics because she believes that having a baby is something special and a miracle of nature not a scientific marvel.