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Human Reproduction, Vol. 14, No. 4, 867-868, April 1999
© 1999 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

Debate

Gender selection: a crime against humanity or the exercise of a fundamental right?

Claude Sureau

147 Avenue de Malakoff, 75116 Paris, France

This article will not discuss the technical points raised in the paper by Fugger et al. (Fugger et al., 1998Go), nor will it consider how semen is obtained, since by definition it is unacceptable, for example from the Vatican's point of view. Let us suppose that all problems of safety and efficiency have also been solved.

It seems we have to consider several kinds of possible indications: (i) prevention of X-linked diseases; (ii) family balancing; and (iii) free choice.

Prevention of X-linked diseases

In the prevention of X-linked diseases, e.g. Duchenne myopathy, haemophilia, there are the following choices: (i) pre-natal diagnosis, followed by medical termination if the fetus is male or termination which is restricted to affected male fetuses; (ii) preimplantation genetic . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Family balancing

Free choice

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