The Prohibition of Sex Selection for Social Reasons in the United Kingdom: Public Opinion Trumps Reproductive Liberty?

Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics 15 (3):261-272 (2006)
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From 2002 to 2003, the United Kingdom's Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority carried out a review of the available methods of sex selection, the central aims of which were, in the words of the subsequent report

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10.1017/s0963180106060336

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