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Assisted Reproduction
Choosing sex of child popular among infertile women
March 31st, 2005
Results of a new survey reveal a significant number of women being treated for infertility would choose the sex of their next child if given the option, and those as yet childless would choose baby girls and boys in approximately equal numbers. "We found that 41% of patients surveyed would use preimplantation sex selection if it were offered to them at no cost," said Tarun Jain, assistant professor of reproductive endocrinology and infertility at the University of Illinois, Chicago, and lead author of a study in the March 2005 issue of Fertility and Sterility. Two techniques currently available in the United States, sperm separation and...
Source: Women's Health Weekly (2005-03-31)
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