Gender Selection - Shady Grove Fertility

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get an abortion that late in the game for most.

PP wanting to "balance" their third child, do you even understand what balancing is?

We all know what it means in this context. I am happy to call it selection since that's what it is.

Gross is what it is.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get an abortion that late in the game for most.

PP wanting to "balance" their third child, do you even understand what balancing is?

late in the game? you can find out gender at 7 weeks with blood test these days. don't think pp was saying people actually do it, but that it could be done.

selection/balancing whatever... if people want to do it, and it's not against current medical ethics, then what's the big deal about letting them do it? Everyone makes their own decisions and does what's right for them. why do folks feel their opinions are always on the "right"side of the issue?

Hmm, why do you think your opinion that it is ok is right?

Current medical ethics allow it. this is why.

To the PP who is worked up about a "designer baby" - this concept assumes achieving desired features that your off spring would not otherwise have whether by genetic modifications or other means. E.g. blue eyes or tall height, when your genotype does not have either. Simply picking one of your existing embryos designer baby does not make. Period.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hard to get an abortion that late in the game for most.

PP wanting to "balance" their third child, do you even understand what balancing is?

We all know what it means in this context. I am happy to call it selection since that's what it is.

Gross is what it is.

Why?

[Anonymous]

So I have 2 sons. If I do PGS and tell tell them I want to do "family balancing" they WILL tell me the gender of the embryos? I still want a boy but I will play that card if I have to...I find it insulting that I am paying for a genetic service yet I dont get what I paid for - a complete understanding. I mean the whole "playing god" thing is out of the bottle long before you get to the pgs stage🙄

[Anonymous]

Is the issue that people will largely prefer one gender (like Chinese one child policy causing a preference for boys?)

If so, do Americans prefer girls or boys?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Is the issue that people will largely prefer one gender (like Chinese one child policy causing a preference for boys?)

If so, do Americans prefer girls or boys?

That’s my favorite question too. If the preference overall in the US is about 50/50 then I don’t see the issue. But if it could lead to an imbalance society like China or India then it’s definitely an issue.

[Anonymous]

People have been selecting for gender fir centuries we are just Morse sophisticated about it now.

[Anonymous]

We went down the slippery slope a long time ago. Get into the 21st century.

[Anonymous]

Yes they allow gender selection if you do the genetic testing. I had four viable embryos, two boys and two girls, and I was able to select which one to transfer.

[Anonymous]

I explicitly asked them NOT to tell me when they did the genetic testing .... and then they told me.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I can't imagine why anywhere wouldn't if you had a gender - linked issue.

I can't imagine how you could think you should have kids if you want to pay for a certain gender only.

The latter is called family balancing and is not against the currently acceptable medical ethics in the US. If you have 1 child, it's acceptable to request the opposite gender of the existing child. If people want to do it, it's not a crime against humanity. It's people like you who oppose fertility treatments all together - why, gasp, you can't imagine paying to have children...

um it’s not people like pp. it’s a lot of people. I tried for 4 years (4 Iub’s , 4 fresh, 3 frozen) before I had a baby. I would NEVER have dreamed of selecting gender. I was about to go fertility treatments for my second when I got pregnant on a cancelled cycle. I had no intention of “family balancing.” This actually makes me sick. You know the saying we All tell kids? You get what you get and you don’t get upset.

[Anonymous]

SGF now allows for sex selection if you’ve done PGS testing. I believe their policy changed in 2018 or 2019.

[Anonymous]

keep in mind that while they will tell you the sex of the embryos, and you can choose which one to try— if you are in one of their shared risk programs you cannot bank embryos or only transfer one sex; you'd need to transfer all embryos before moving on to the next round.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:SGF now allows for sex selection if you’ve done PGS testing. I believe their policy changed in 2018 or 2019.

Yes, this is correct. Many years ago when I began my fertility journey, I remember Dr. Chang at SGF specifically telling us that they did not allow gender selection. He said that if they did, they would have nothing but boys. We all kind of laughed and he explained that they treat a lot of patients from overseas "and they all want boys."

The policy changed. When we went back for baby 2 we were able to select gender.

[Anonymous]

The Earth will be better off if we let countries like China and most middle Eastern countries choose boys. We are overpopulated and the growth of population depends solely on females so a shortage of females will decrease population growth and make young woman more valuable. There are 8-10 men to every 1 woman in China, that gives those women the power to choose their destiny.
In the U.S IVF clinics report an equal desire for male/ female embryos to implant.