Gender Selection

If you were offered an opportunity to choose the sex of your baby at conception, would you do it? - Kylie Matthews

Gender Selection
Gender Selection

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 Jack or Jill?

The real trouble with sex selection goes beyond sex discrimination. The real trouble is that it allows us, for the first time, to use a medical procedure to select or reject a child on the basis of a characteristic that has nothing to do with life and death, that is not in any sense of the word pathological, that cannot possibly be construed as sparing a child any pain and suffering.

Gender Select

Helping you choose the gender of your baby.

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