Psalm25Gomer
10-29-2005, 12:23 AM
This link is off my local newsite.
http://wwaytv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4039151
There's a controversial new trend where parents are allowed to choose the sex of their child.
Now doctors have started a study to see how a growing child may be affected by their parents’ choice. A new study is underway in the US -- letting parents choose in advance whether to have a boy or a girl.
The researchers will follow the families to study the physical and emotional impact of allowing parents to choose the sex of their child.
The future child's gender will be tested from embryos created in the laboratory by in-vitro fertilization.
The technique -- called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD -- is already used to screen embryos during IVF for abnormal chromosomes and for genes that convey diseases like cystic fibrosis.
But the idea that parents can select the sex of their child for purely social reasons is controversial, so doctors want to study these sex-selected children as they grow up.
In the United States, parents by law are not required to have a medical reason if they want to know the sex of an embryo or any-aged fetus.
The new trial will focus on couples who already have a child of one sex and now want a child of the opposite sex to balance the family out.
Controversial indeed, but already, 50 couples have signed up to participate. There is a method of sex selection that is 99 percent effective. The cost is close to $19,000.
This angers me (although it doesn't "surprise" me)....but before I post my feelings (because I tend to get very blunt :rolleyes: ) .....I'll let everyone else go first. ;)
http://wwaytv3.com/Global/story.asp?S=4039151
There's a controversial new trend where parents are allowed to choose the sex of their child.
Now doctors have started a study to see how a growing child may be affected by their parents’ choice. A new study is underway in the US -- letting parents choose in advance whether to have a boy or a girl.
The researchers will follow the families to study the physical and emotional impact of allowing parents to choose the sex of their child.
The future child's gender will be tested from embryos created in the laboratory by in-vitro fertilization.
The technique -- called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD -- is already used to screen embryos during IVF for abnormal chromosomes and for genes that convey diseases like cystic fibrosis.
But the idea that parents can select the sex of their child for purely social reasons is controversial, so doctors want to study these sex-selected children as they grow up.
In the United States, parents by law are not required to have a medical reason if they want to know the sex of an embryo or any-aged fetus.
The new trial will focus on couples who already have a child of one sex and now want a child of the opposite sex to balance the family out.
Controversial indeed, but already, 50 couples have signed up to participate. There is a method of sex selection that is 99 percent effective. The cost is close to $19,000.
This angers me (although it doesn't "surprise" me)....but before I post my feelings (because I tend to get very blunt :rolleyes: ) .....I'll let everyone else go first. ;)