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Monday March 29, 2004
Cloning Doctor to Open Sex-Selection IVF Counseling Clinic in UK
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LONDON, March 29, 2004 (LifeSiteNews.com) - Dr. Panos Zavos, the doctor famous for claiming to have implanted a cloned embryo into a 35-year old woman, is planning to set up a clinic in London to provide sex-selection counseling for IVF clients. The use of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to screen for the sex of the child is illegal in Britain, but Dr. Zavos plans on performing the actual procedure in the US to avoid a legal conflict.
The clone pregnancy failed and the headline-loving doctor held a press conference in London to announce his latest plans. He claims that the need for such a sex-selection clinic is based on demand saying that 1500 people have already contacted him. He said, "I'm going to come to the UK every month for two days because the desire is so tremendous."
Many feminist ethicists are warning that sex selection via abortion and IVF is the latest wave of discrimination against women. It is banned in the UK and in India where the government is working against centuries of prejudice that compels families to prefer boys to girls. In China, under the brutal one-child policy, the preference for boys has created a black market in wives in areas where men outnumber women by a wide margin. The recently passed Canadian legislation, C-6 will allow sex selection of embryos in IVF procedures, but only to avoid sex-associated illnesses.
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http://www.sundayherald.com/40861
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