The phrase "avoid the birth of" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts where one wishes to prevent the initiation or occurrence of something, often in a metaphorical sense.
Example: "To ensure a peaceful future, we must take steps to avoid the birth of new conflicts."
Alternatives: "prevent the emergence of" or "stop the creation of".
An effective way to avoid the birth of severe thalassemia patients is to strengthen the thalassemia screening of couples before wives are pregnant.
Now sex selection is to be banned explicitly, except in cases where it would avoid the birth of children with sex-linked genetic diseases.Yet the new legislation fails to address the biggest problem of all: burdensome, costly regulation.
In its decision, first made last year and confirmed in July, it said that because the "errors" of the doctor and the laboratory "had prevented Mrs. Perruche from exercising her choice to end the pregnancy in order to avoid the birth of a handicapped child, the latter can ask for compensation for damages resulting from this handicap".
Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) aims to help couples with heritable genetic disorders to avoid the birth of diseased offspring or the recurrence of loss of conception.
For families wishing to avoid the birth of affected children, preconception or antenatal screening is the most effective approach and is widely applied in many high-risk populations.
The primary approach used to avoid the birth of affected children has been prenatal diagnosis and termination of affected pregnancies, although other approaches such as genotyping to identify and avoid 'risky matches' have been used.
If you peel away the hype, the truth is that we already have robust ways of avoiding the birth of children with such conditions, where that is appropriate, through genetic testing of embryos.
"We will be pushing for government support to demonstrate the potential of tidal lagoon power by giving the goahead for the Swansea Bay project, thereby avoiding the still birth of a game-changer for UK energy and UK industry," said Mark Shorrock, the chief executive of Tidal Lagoon Power.
You can avoid the possibility of birth by using pills, protection and so on, but man hasn't been able to interfere in the business of death.
An example of the former occurs among the Lesu of Melanesia: Lesu men traditionally avoid certain foods before the birth of their children, and the community as a whole engages in similar avoidance when its young people experience passage rites such as initiation or marriage.
Some comparisons were made using just the term births to avoid the potential effects of preterm birth.
