Sunday Express; says:TOP fertility doctors want to lift the ban on parents choosing the sex of their baby – saying couples should have the right to pick “a pink one rather than a blue one”. In evidence to MPs three senior fertility specialists insisted that allowing sex selection would not be a “slippery slope” towards designer babies, as few parents would want to choose.
Dr Gillian Lockwood, medical director at Midland Fertility Services, in Walsall, one of the oldest IVF clinics in the country, said there was unlikely to be a rush by parents to create “a football team or a girls’ choir” – not least because the IVF process involved is expensive, uncomfortable and has a relatively low chance of success. Dr Lockwood also warned that some couples were effectively already choosing the sex of their baby, by having an abortion if scans showed the foetus was the “wrong” gender. In some parts of the country hospitals refuse to tell parents about their baby’s gender, even if it can be detected on a scan.
