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The choice of gender: is elective gender selection, indeed, sexist?

Author(s) -

Norbert Gleicher,

D. H. Barad

Publication year - 2007

Publication title -

human reproduction

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.446

H-Index - 226

eISSN - 1460-2350

pISSN - 0268-1161

DOI - 10.1093/humrep/dem227

Subject(s) - ethnic group , sex selection , selection (genetic algorithm) , demography , population , preference , psychology , gynecology , social psychology , medicine , sociology , political science , law , artificial intelligence , computer science , economics , microeconomics

Like a number of international organizations before them, the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) recently issued an ethics opinion, which condemned all indications of elective gender selection as devaluatory to women and sexist and, therefore, given the choice, assumed automatic preference for male gender selection in all populations. This study intended to investigate this notion for accuracy.

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