Designer families, ethical knots.
- Resource Type
- Article
- Authors
- Busch, Lisa
- Source
- U.S. News & World Report. 5/31/93, Vol. 114 Issue 21, p73. 1p. 1 Color Photograph.
- Subject
- *HUMAN in vitro fertilization
*RELIGION
- Language
- ISSN
- 0041-5537
Gives details on the Ericsson method, a controversial medical procedure used in more than 50 fertility clinics to select a child's sex before conception. How its growing popularity in clinics is causing consternation among ethicists who see it as a harbinger of more-widespread sex selection to come; Theory behind the sex selection method; Preference for firstborn sons over daughters.