Choosing your child’s sex
(cz) People have been trying to play a role in determining the sex of their children for thousands of years. But whether your nursery is pink or blue has always been left up to chance until now.
HealthFirst reporter Leslie LoBue tells us not only is it possible to use science to choose the sex of your child, it’s virtually guaranteed, and in the U.S. , it’s legal. Fertility specialist Jeffrey Steinberg has been doing in-vitro fertilization since it started 30 years ago. Fast forward to 2008, and he now offers patients another breakthrough: choosing the sex of their children. “If they want a boy, we give them only boys and if they want a girl, we give them only girls. And in thousands of cases, we’ve never gone wrong,” Steinberg said. Gender selection for non-medical reasons is illegal in many countries; China, India, Germany, the U.K. and even Canada. The most sure-fire way to have a boy or girl is with pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, or PGD. more…
From: »abc12.com«