Promoting PGD for child’s gender

A reproductive clinic in North Carolina is promoting PGD for gender selection…

The $13,000 procedure, which isn’t always successful, involves stimulating a woman’s ovaries to produce numerous eggs — 10 on average — that are then fertilized, he said. After the embryo is grown in the laboratory for three days, a cell is tested to determine the sex

The news channel has a poll there that asks visitors if parents and doctors should be allowed to select the gender of a child before birth:
From a total of 474 answers (@ 6:00pm 02/17/06), the percentage of answers are:
Yes – > 17%
No -> 77%
Not sure – >6%
I agree… PGD for gender selection is not a good thing..
Read the complete story via NBC 17 News here.

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