Choosing Sex of Child

For thousands of years, man has searched for ways of choosing the sex of a future child. Many pills, potions and positions have been tried down the decades, with little or no success.

It is now possible, with the help of fertility doctors using embryo selection, to choose the sex of a child, although the technique is not available in the UK. And parental demand for sex selection has never been greater.

But other methods of sex selection, albeit those that claim lower success rates than pre-implantation diagnosis, are being increasingly used, and research carried out among infertile women shows that four out of 10 would opt to choose to the sex of the child.

"We found that 41 per cent of patients would use sex selection if it were offered to them at no cost,'' says Dr Tarun Jain, an assistant professor of infertility at the University of Illinois.

"Sex selection is a topic that's almost taboo for doctors to talk about. Yet it's important to understand patient interest in sex selection for non-medical reasons, and address the ethical and social implications before the cat is out of the bag. Until now, there has been no data to indicate what the demand might be.''..........http://www.selectyourbaby.com