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...

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...

This post is so difficult to write, but I felt I could not let this story pass without mentioning the tragic fate of Nita Koli, a 25-year-old mother in Gujarat, India. Six months pregnant, the young woman was burned to death by her husband and mother-in-law, apparently after learning her baby was a third...

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...

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...

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...

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...

'California, Land of Promise' Undergoing IVF is no vacation, but that's the reason a growing number of couples are heading to California. Because California permits many procedures that are regulated or prohibited in other countries, such as egg donation and surrogacy, couples from around the world flock...

Religious scholars in Egypt recently condoned the use of sex selection techniques for Muslims, although only under certain conditions. While scholars of the Qur'an believe that intervening in the fertilization of an egg to determine the baby's gender defies God's will, others note that the Prophet Zakaria...

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...