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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]NP here. For the most part, I agree with most of the others here saying that OP should essentially be content with her healthy embryos and leave it at that (though I do also see the other side). But for those you of you talking about the ethical slippery slope and the repercussions in countries with infanticide problems like China and India -- do you really think enabling those parents to choose the sex of their children is ethically worse than those who ultimately kill or abandon their baby girls? [/quote]

No not the same.  But the point is opening the door to gender selection is opening the door to gender selection for those without infertility---which does happen--- http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2601563/I-love-girls-Joe-Francis-girlfriend-IVF-pick-sex-twins.html.  So once you open that door, you end up on the slippery slope of gender selection for vanity...which could easily become used in place of infanticide.  And then what else do people select for?

Without denying OP's right to do this--I've posted many times above to say I am not saying OP should not, or that I might not---we have to admit these are tough ethical questions and we hope doctors proceed carefully here.   And I don't think there is anything inconsistent with having infertility--a medical condition--and wanting AFT to remain medically focused.

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The thing is, how do you define infertility? By nature of the ART treatment, you may end up with more than one healthy embryos.  The fact that you have more than one does not negate the fact that you needed reproductive technologies to make them. You are still technically infertile without them. So even with a medical focus, there is an issue of "here's ten, choose one".  [/quote]

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