A leading IVF clinic is helping clients choose the sex of their baby by sending them to an overseas clinic it co-owns, avoiding Australian rules which allow the practice only for medical reasons.
Sydney IVF, which has several clinics in NSW as well as in Canberra, Perth and Tasmania, is part-owner of Superior ART, a Thai clinic that will provide IVF for ”family balancing” – when families with children of one gender are seeking another child of the opposite sex.
It costs $11,000 including flights and accommodation, a spokesman for Sydney IVF said.
So if it isn’t the sex you want, you abort the fetus and try again? Oh, good show. This is called freedom of choice. And $11000. Oy vey, what a bargain. Larry
I am surprised that the news story fails to tell us how the procedure works. This would seem to be a critical question in assessing its ethics. For example, does the procedure involve using the parents’ sperm and eggs to create several embryos, and then killing all those of the wrong sex?
Having lost four children to miscarriage, I have visions of embracing them in heaven — but stories like this give a new and horrifying meaning to Revelation 7:9 – [i]After this I looked, and there before me was [b]a great multitude that no one could count,[/b] from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands.[/i]