Is Sex Selecting Children Wrong?

That is the lead of a peice that deals pretty well with the subject,

I was not caring about the content of the lead,

I was only trying to provide a resource to those who are not familiar with the subject.

And instead you've just muddied the waters.

Is it a boy or girl? A new blood test can determine a baby’s gender, with 95 percent accuracy, seven weeks into a pregnancy—without the risks of such invasive procedures as chorionic villus sampling or amniocentesis, both of which pose a small threat of triggering a miscarriage, reports an analysis to be published in the Journal of the American Medical Association on August 10. The blood test is already used in Europe and may be offered in the US as soon as 2012.

Currently, most expectant parents have to wait at least 11 to 12 weeks into the pregnancy, when an ultrasound may be able to detect a baby’s gender. However, first trimester results are wrong in up to 50 percent of cases: Earlier this year, Victoria Beckham was crushed when a scan seemed to indicate she was carrying a boy, only to be ecstatic when a subsequent ultrasound showed that she was actually expecting a girl.

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The new test provides valuable medical information to parents who have a family history of gender-linked diseases and could allow doctors to treat babies for some inherited disorders before birth, says study co-author Diana Bianchi, MD, executive director of the Mother Infant Research Institute at Tufts Medial Center. However, the test also raises troubling ethical concerns, since it could also be used for gender selection, giving expectant moms the option of terminating a pregnancy earlier than ever before if the baby is the “wrong” gender. Here’s a closer look at the research