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Article: Sex selection: final word from the ASRM Ethics Committee on the use of PGD.(American Society for Reproductive Medicine; preimplantation genetic diagnosis)
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- The Hastings Center Report
- Article date:
- March 1, 2002
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Selecting the sex of children for non-medical purposes raises complicated questions of sexism and gender stereotyping, procreative liberty, the allocation of medical resources, and, depending on the method used, respect for the earliest stages of human life. Few people in the United States would use abortion for this purpose (the experience in India is different), but some are willing to use preconception sperm sorting techniques or even to create and biopsy embryos to have a child of the preferred sex.
In 1999, the Ethics Committee of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine had concluded that couples should be discouraged from undergoing IVF with ...