General Article Sex selection in the US is still legal. But what do the experts say?

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High-tech sex-selection methods have stirred hot debate in the medical community. Some doctors think it’s a great way to balance families, while others think we’re heading down a slippery slope.

Mark Sauer, a fertility specialist and the program director at the Center for Women’s Reproductive Care at Columbia University in New York, thinks that sex selection for family balancing is unethical and has no place in fertility treatments.

‘I can’t endorse the destruction of normal human embryos b...

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