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'The Family Man' TV drama addresses gender selection
Saturday, March 18, 2006 6:00 AM
Trevor Eve "The Family Man" An upcoming 3-part miniseries on UK television features a fertility expert facing ethical dilemmas in the world of IVF. One story line concerns parents of 3 daughters, who are devastated after the death of their son and want to use sex selection to conceive a boy -- against the law. The story comes direct from the UK headlines. The...
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Sex selection and the 'yuck factor'
Thursday, August 25, 2005 9:07 AM
As the debate in Britian continues about sex selection for family balancing, one editorialist opines that there's really no reason not to allow parents to choose the gender of their baby. As for the idea that choosing your child’s sex is somehow immoral, why do the same critics not inveigh against these more homespun techniques [the squirt of lemon or the high...
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Run for the hills, the designer babies are coming!
Wednesday, August 24, 2005 9:00 AM
Britian is only a "hop, skip, and a jump" away from the nightmare vision of social engineering portrayed in Aldous Huxley's science fiction classic "Brave New World", according to the chairman of the British Medical Association Welsh Council. As the UK government considers whether to lift the ban on gender selection for family balancing, Dr. Tony Calland warns...
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Gender selection tourism: going abroad when you can't get it at home
Wednesday, August 17, 2005 1:00 PM
Nicola Chenery was the mother of 4 beautiful sons, but longed for a daughter, so much so that she travelled from her home in England to Spain, where medical gender selection for family balancing is allowed. PGD treatment costing $11,000 made Nicola's dream come true: she is now the mum of twin girls. (The Chenery story was widely publicized in the British press;...
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The UK government wants your opinion on whether gender selection should be permitted, or banned
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:30 AM
High tech gender selection for family balancing is prohibited in the UK, but is it possible that could change? Today the United Kingdom's Department of Health launches a public consultation to learn the public's views on sex selection and other issues related to assisted conception technologies. The consultation is part of a review aimed at reforming regulations...
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Miracle cure thanks to PGD and 'savior sibling'
Tuesday, August 16, 2005 9:00 AM
Hallelujah! Charlie Whitaker, a toddler ill with a rare and life-threatening blood disorder, has been pronounced cured after receiving a transplant of the umbilical blood from his brother Jamie. Jamie was conceived using PGD, a technique which uses genetic screening to choose a tissue-matched embryo. The Whitakers were forced to travel from Britian to the US...
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UK's first savior sibling is a 'perfect match' -- and parents are thrilled to have a girl.
Monday, August 08, 2005 9:00 AM
A few weeks ago I mentioned the birth of the UK's first savior sibling -- Jodie Fletcher, born after PGD was used to select embryos tissue-matched to her 3-year-old brother, Joshua. Joshua suffers from a rare blood disorder, and despite extensive medical treatment is often in severe pain. His only hope for a cure is from a blood stem cell transplant from a tissue...
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Bioethicist defends parents' right to choose their baby's gender
Wednesday, August 03, 2005 8:45 AM
Dr. Edgar Dahl, bioethicist and senior research fellow at the medical centre of Geissen University, Germany, argues that sex selection should be permitted in the UK. Based on his extensive research on gender preference among parents in many countries, Dahl refutes the common misconception that gender selection could lead to a sex ratio imbalance. He cites a survey...
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Article: Birth of first "Savior Sibling" conceived in the UK with PGD
Tuesday, July 19, 2005 5:21 AM
Article: 'Savior sibling' born to Fletcher family (BioNews, UK) I've written before about the Whitakers, a family with a seriously ill son who could be cured by a bone marrow transfusion. They hoped to use PGD to have a 'savior sibling' -- using an embryo selected because it was a tissue match for their older son. However, the UK's HFEA (the aptly called "watchdog...
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UK: Why the critics got it wrong over 'designer babies'
Sunday, March 27, 2005 9:01 AM
Why the critics got it wrong over 'designer babies' Scottish News Commentary on the report on reproductive technologies issued by the UK's House of Commons select committee on science and technology concludes, "the report certainly is radical, but in a positive not a negative sense".
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UK: The law is halting the birth of a new era
Sunday, March 27, 2005 8:53 AM
The law is halting birth of new era Scottish News Dr. Ian Gibson, chairman of the UK's House of Commons Science and Technology Committee, comments on changes needed in the function of the HFEA, which regulates fertility treatment in the UK. An excerpt from this excellent article: The 1990 Act has an infamous clause, which states that "a woman shall not be provided...
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Gender Selection in the UK?
Thursday, March 24, 2005 12:00 AM
A report from the UK's Commons Science and Technology Committee advises that couples undergoing IVF should be allowed to choose their baby's gender. Ethics row as choosing baby's sex splits MPs 24-Mar-2005, UK Guardian Q&A: Fertility Report 24-Mar-2005, BBC News Parents could pick babies' sex 24-Mar-2005, BBC News Should parents select their baby's sex? 24...
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