Ethical issues of sex selection

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English

 

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Mickey M

 

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November 20, 2014

 

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University

 

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However, the debate on whether sex selection is an ethical practice involves technology that is already perfected. It is possible, through prenatal genetic screening, to determine which four-to-eight-cell human embryos are male and female and to implant into the uterus only those of the desired sex. This technology was developed for the implantation of female embryos into the uteri of women carrying X-linked lethal or debilitating diseases...
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For instance, a woman who is a carrier for X-linked hemophilia or Tay-Sachs disease may want to have a child and not undergo the tentative pregnancy associated with amniocentesis or chorionic villi sampling. Therefore, she could have fertilization with her partner done in vitro, and have only the XX embryos implanted...
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