What are the reasons for using gender selection?
There is a rapidly increasing demand for gender (sex) selection in the U.S. In principle two reasons can be found for this development: As our understanding of genetic diseases increases, and with it our ability to diagnose couples at risk to have affected children, we more frequently use the tool of preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) to genetically assess embryos prior to their implantation into the uterus. Some genetic diseases are only expressed in males and parents, therefore, at times make a conscious choice to have only female offspring. Others do it simply because they already have multiple children of one gender and would like a child of the opposite gender.
