Sentences with phrase «sex selection»

The technology that ultimately became the dominant method of sex selection around the world began as a tool for navigation.

A policy such as this could be misused to test for less serious medical conditions, or for sex selection in countries where there is little regulation, he says.

According to the Hindu Times, the Supreme Court in New Delhi has «issued notice» to various search engine companies — Microsoft, Google, Yahoo, etc. — on a petition claiming their violation of the Preconception and Prenatal Diagnostic Techniques Act because of advertising on their sites promoting sex selection techniques.

A ban on sex selection of offspring for non-medical reasons.

They coined the phrase «family balancing» to make sex selection more palatable.

With all the other evils facing them, so far they have largely avoided the deadly violence of sex selection due to that region's relatively high fertility rates.

For the first time, in March 2007, the U.N. body charged with looking out for women, CSW, made mention, even if only a passing mention, of the «root causes of son preference» and «female infanticide and pre-natal sex selection.»

He writes in reaction to an American IVF clinic advertising sex selection, meaning that all embryos of the «wrong sex» become medical waste based on eugenic calculations.

From, «Sex Selection Ads Are a Recognition of Canada's Indifference to the Baby Industry:»

The practice of sex selection creates related problems.

There are also couples who choose to do sex selection techniques to ensure the sex of their next baby, like MicroSort ®, Shettles Method, preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD), etc..

This is called sex selection.

While there will always be those who have used particular sex selection...

Long before ultrasound made sex determination easy, experts at a 1969 workshop convened by the U.S. National Institute of Child Health and Human Development and the American Association for the Advancement of the Sciences identified sex selection as a promising research area for scientists working on population control.

Mara Hvistendahl is the author of Unnatural Selection, an investigation into the effects of widespread global sex selection that was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

The HFEA licenses clinics and regulates research: it limits the number of embryos implanted and prohibits sex selection for nonmedical reasons, but it is not always overly restrictive.

Just how adaptive sex selection may occur is unknown, but there's evidence that poor maternal nutrition disproportionately affects male offspring.

Trivers believes sex selection may happen even earlier, at the time of conception.

Even the threat of this could be used to persecute: consider the ugly histories of prenatal sex selection and of coerced and ineffectual «therapies» for homosexuals.

«As a woman's health advocate for nearly 100 years, Planned Parenthood opposes sex selection abortion and insists on the highest quality care.

A technology originally developed for maritime navigation and detection has become the dominant method for sex selection

Legislators in eight states introduced measures to ban abortion for purposes of sex selection.

But in the United States, a different kind of sex selection is taking place: Mothers like Simpson are using expensive reproductive procedures so they can select girls.

In her own article in the Atlantic, Rosin reports a similar number for one (expensive, rare) method of sex selection only (with no source offered)-- but of course the vast majority of fertility clinic patients are not using sex selection techniques.

An article in The Telegraph (16 July 2013) informs us that Stephen Wilkinson, professor of bioethics at Lancaster, has produced a report that found «no reason to expect harm to future children or wider society if these techniques were made available for «social» reasons... We didn't find any ethical arguments sufficient to justify a blanket ban on... sex selection.»

Over the last generation, the world has witnessed a drive toward smaller families, and this is directly related to sex selection.

Another (though less effective) method of sex selection is available to parents; it involves separating sperm, and using those likely to produce the desired gender to fertilize the egg.

Our fertility treatment options range from Intrauterine Insemination - IUI, ICSI and In Vitro Fertilization - IVF to cutting edge technology such as cryopreservation (egg freezing), genetic testing of embryos (PGD and sex selection) and third party reproduction with an in - house egg donation program at the PFC Egg Donor Agency.

To be included on the list, candidates must «uphold strong traditional family values and prudent fiscal practice, oppose the killing of preborn children for sex selection, convenience and birth control, and oppose assisted suicide and euthanasia.»

Sex selection, in fact, had been linked with population control since at least the 1950s, when research emerged showing that around the world, couples kept having children until they had a son.

A much larger experiment on abortion and sex selection — this time performed with amniocentesis — was conducted that same year in India, with similar results.

Sex selection was a dim possibility, indeed, because early ultrasound machines were nothing like those available today.

The numbers of children born by this technique would be very low, so this sex selection would bear no impact on a country's overall sex ratio.

He is also concerned about China, which prohibits gene - editing of embryos but does not strictly enforce similar rules, as shown by failed attempts to curb the use of ultrasound for sex selection and to stamp out unauthorized stem - cell clinics.

The author outlines the consequences of a society with significantly more men than women — bride buying, sex trafficking, psychological disturbance, violence — and leaves us with a scary fact: Sex selection is now spreading to Eastern Europe and to fertility clinics here in the United States.

There are certainly people who are seeking late term abortion for other reasons (sex selection of the unborn baby) who are going to other countries to have this done (as it is not available here in Canada) but this would not realistically be curtailed by any law.

While Canadian law on the use and manipulation of gametes and embryos is quite conservative, those seeking less bureaucratic or more radical interventions can simply ask the potential surrogate mother to cross the Canada-U.S. border where IVF would be performed following, for example, sex selection or pre-implantation genetic testing in a more technology - friendly American state.

The second bans abortion for purposes of race or sex selection.

«A group that opposes Planned Parenthood's mission and services is promoting a series of hoax patient videotapes related to sex selection.

Seven other states have laws in effect banning abortions for purposes of sex selection (see Abortion Bans in Cases of Sex or Race Selection or Genetic Anomaly).