Fatal Knowledge? Prenatal Diagnosis and Sex Selection

Hastings Center Report 19 (3):21-27 (1989)
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Moral and social arguments weigh heavily against performing medical procedures solely for purposes of sex selection. The medical profession has a responsibility to abandon its posture of ethical neutrality and take a firm stand now against sex selection.

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