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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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".