GHENT, Belgium, September 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Belgian clinic is offering couples the option of choosing the sex of the child they are hoping to conceive. Britain’s Observer newspaper broke the story that a fertility centre in Ghent run by Dr. Frank Comhaire provides a “discreet service” to couples “who already have one or two children, but want their next to be of the opposite gender”—a whim of modernity known as “family balancing” which does not yet enjoy universal approval: the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, which represents 4,000 doctors, remains undecided. The technique used is not illegal, and involves ‘sperm-sorting’ that requires taking a sample of sperm, freezing and shipping it to a laboratory in the U.S. to be sorted by chromosone by means of laser technology pioneered by MicroSort in Fairfax, Virginia. The company claims to be able to separate sperm into those bearing the Y-bearing male chromosome and those carrying the X-bearing female chromosome. To read coverage from The Guardian see: https://www.guardian.co.uk/genes/article/0,2763,788190,00.html
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PARENTS PAY TO CHOOSE BABIES’ SEX
GHENT, Belgium, September 9, 2002 (LSN.ca) – A Belgian clinic is offering couples the option of choosing the sex of the child they are hoping to conceive. Britain’s Observer newspaper broke the story that a fertility centre in Ghent run by Dr. Frank Comhaire provides a “discreet service” to couples “who already have one or two children, but want their next to be of the opposite gender”—a whim of modernity known as “family balancing” which does not yet enjoy universal approval: the European Society for Human Reproduction and Embryology, which represents 4,000 doctors, remains undecided. The technique used is not […]
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