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Human Reproduction, Vol. 18, No. 2, 461-462, February 2003
© 2003 European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology

Sex selection by preimplantation genetic diagnosis: should it be carried out for social reasons?

Rony Seif

7 rue du Sergent Godefroy, 93100 Montreuil, France e-mail: ronyseif@aol.com

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Dear Sir,

The last data published by the ESHRE PGD Consortium on Preimplantation Genetic Diagnosis (PGD) include gender screening on preimplantation embryos for social reasons (ESHRE PGD Consortium Steering Committee, 2002Go). Performing PGD for social reasons and publishing related data did not meet with everyone’s approval (ESHRE PGD Consortium Steering Committee, 2002Go; Ray et al., 2002Go). I will not go through all the arguments against sex selection—as this has already been done (Savulescu and Dahl, 2000Go)—but only some of them.

Thus, we can read "the eugenic potential of PGD... is now becoming reality" (Ray et al., 2002Go). Eugenics is by definition the science of improving . . . [Full Text of this Article]


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