Canada may consider Baby Gender Mentor ban
A health official hopes to stop Canadian sales of the Acu-Gen Baby Gender Mentor test, which claims to reveal an unborn baby's gender as early as 5 weeks into pregnancy.
"To take a product which is not regulated by the province, which the province has had no testing over, and to base potentially vital health decisions on it is, we don't believe, a wise course," said George Abbott, British Columbia's Health Minister in today's Vancouver Sun, referring to the possibility that a woman might decide to terminate a pregnancy under false information.
Abbot plans to convey his concerns to his federal counterpart this week, in hopes of putting regulations in place to stop the product's sale.