PGD for Gender Selection Needed for Family Balancing Surrounded by Controversy

Preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) is a reproductive technology used with an IVF cycle. PGD can be used for diagnosis of a genetic disease in early embryos prior to implantation and pregnancy. In addition, this technology can be utilized in the field of assisted reproduction for screening and diagnosis of unbalanced inheritance of chromosome abnormalities, such as translocations or inversions.

Gender selection, or sex selection, is a fertility procedure used to choose the gender of a baby prior to conception. While the desire to choose whether a baby would be a boy or a girl has been present throughout human existence, it is only recently that the technology to do so has become clinically possible and available. With improvements in gender selection technology, demand for gender selection has also been growing steadily.

In recent years, pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) of embryos in clinical assisted reproduction has become increasingly widespread. Besides preventing birth defects in the offspring of parents who are either sufferers or carriers of life- threatening or debilitating genetic diseases, PGD can also be indicated for the routine screening of chromosomal abnormalities and genetic defects.

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