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Is sex selection the first step to designer children?

Ethicists debate the potential implications of techniques that allow parents to influence a child's gender before fertilization of the egg.

References:

Fugger, E.F., et al. 1998. Births of normal daughters after MicroSort sperm separation and intrauterine insemination, in vitro fertilization, or intracytoplasmic sperm injection. Human Reproduction (September).

Further Readings:

Fackelmann, K.A. 1994. Vive la difference. Science News 146(Oct. 29):286.

Rothman, B.K. 1998. Genetic Maps and Human Imaginations. New York: W.W. Norton & Company Inc.

Sources:

Arthur Caplan
University of Pennsylvania
Center for Bioethics
3401 Market Street, #320
Philadelphia, PA 19104-3308

R. Alta Charo
University of Wisconsin, Madison
6108 Law Building
975 Bascom Mall
Madison, WI 53706

Edward F. Fugger
Genetics & IVF Institute
Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology
3020 Javier Road
Fairfax, VA 22031

From Science News, Vol. 154, No. 22, November 28, 1998, p. 350. Copyright Ó 1998 by Science Service.

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