Sick of Pregnancy? You Could Be Having A Girl
Sick of Pregnancy? You Could Be Having A Girl
Beyond modern techniques, most of what people use to determine a child's sex are "old wives' tales," Phelan tells WebMD. And as Askling did, she worries that "this [information] could be potentially misused."
"What are you going to do with that information? The fear would be that if you had some sort of a marker test that at six weeks into the pregnancy you could tell with very good accuracy the sex of the baby, the fear would be: would people selectively choose which pregnancies they would continue to carry based on something as basic as gender?
Sick of Pregnancy? You Could Be Having A Girl
Beyond modern techniques, most of what people use to determine a child's sex are "old wives' tales," Phelan tells WebMD. And as Askling did, she worries that "this [information] could be potentially misused."
"What are you going to do with that information? The fear would be that if you had some sort of a marker test that at six weeks into the pregnancy you could tell with very good accuracy the sex of the baby, the fear would be: would people selectively choose which pregnancies they would continue to carry based on something as basic as gender?
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