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Preimplantation Social Sexing: A Problem of Proportionality and Decision Making

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Sex selection by sperm sorting seems ethically acceptable for social reasons. Sex selection after preimplantation embryo sexing results in the use of non-trivial means (discard healthy embryos) to fulfill a trivial desire. In this case, proportionality between means and ends is missing, and cultural reasons should not be accepted to justify its use.

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  1. Department of Cell Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Edifici CS, 08193, Bellaterra, Spain

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Egozcue, J. Preimplantation Social Sexing: A Problem of Proportionality and Decision Making. J Assist Reprod Genet 19, 440–442 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1016824009521

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