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Preimplantation social sexing: a problem of proportionality and decision making
1Department of Cell Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain. josep.egozcue@uab.es
Journal of Assisted Reproduction and Genetics
|November 1, 2002
Abstract:
Sex selection by sperm sorting seems ethically acceptable for social reasons. Sex selection after preimplantation embryo sexing results in the use of non-trivial means (discard healthy embryos) to fulfill a trivial desire. In this case, proportionality between means and ends is missing, and cultural reasons should not be accepted to justify its use.
Keywords:
Genetics and Reproduction