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Human Reproduction, Vol. 14, No. 4, 868-870, April 1999
© 1999 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

Debate

Sex Preselection: an aid to couples or a threat to humanity?

Giuseppe Benagiano and Paola Bianchi

Istituto Superiore di Sanita, Rome, Italy

Whenever there is a new technological tool that pries into the secrets of life the majority reacts with caution, if not negatively altogether. On 10 September 1998, the Italian press gave the news of the discovery of a method to predetermine the sex of a new baby with 90% accuracy (Fugger et al., 1998Go) in sensational terms: `A little boy or a little girl? Soon children by order!' (La Repubblica); `The new method (of sex preselection) is under accusation' (Il Corriere della Sera); `Science without limitations; alarm and polemics' (Il Messaggero).

Although we are no exception to the rule of skin-deep reactions and see the obvious reasons for this type of behaviour, we also believe that bioethics teaches us, before we pass a moral judgement, to ask ourselves a few fundamental questions, the first two being: . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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