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Early baby sex test over the web
Posted by dapo on May 8, 2007 in Talking point
This news item has appeared on the BBC site. I know that people do want to know the sex of their child and this opens the possibility of making this very easy form very early in the pregnancy.
I do hope the concerns about the use of the test to abort unwanted children prove to be misplaced. As it stand at the moment, a couple could still abort after the sex is determined at the 20 week scan. This procedure would be far easy to perform if it was carried out at an earlier stage.
As an expectant parent, I find it hard to believe that some one would want to abort purely on the grounds of sex. I do sympathise with couples with a history of hereditary illness linked to the sex chromosomes.