Sentence examples for gender selection from inspiring English sources

Such uses of PGD are controversial (on gender selection see Robertson 2003; Purdy 2007; Heyd 2003; on selecting deafness see Karpin 2007).

While sex-selective abortion is illegal — though still common — in China, gender selection is technically straightforward through in vitro fertilization in the United States, where it is used in surrogacy cases.

This logic might work if one could magically ensure that gender selection bias does not exist.

It is illegal to use IVF for gender selection in Vietnam so the couple chose a hospital in Thailand.

She says there's no reliable evidence that gender selection abortions are occurring in this country.

Pennsylvania, Oklahoma and Arizona have all banned abortions for the purpose of gender selection.

In conversations prompted by the appearance of the gender-selection ads, many Indian and South Asian immigrants also said that traditional bias against female children ran deep.

India has a long history of practices that oppress women, from gender-selection abortion and female infanticide to bride-burning, when a family fails to pay a dowry.

It is not possible to assess how popular sex-determination tests and gender-selection techniques might be among Indian-Americans or any other group.

Chinese immigrants in New York City can find a gender-selection clinic right in Manhattan's Chinatown, where Dr. Robert M. Nyein started offering the Ericsson sperm-separation technique as part of his gynecological practice about four years ago.

Because such gender-selection methods do not always give the hoped-for results, the possibility exists that a desperate or especially determined woman may abort the fetus if it is not of the gender she wanted.