U.K. Parents Head to U.S. To Choose Baby's Sex
The service is banned in Great Britain
Dozens of British women a year are flying to the United States and paying thousands of pounds to select the sex of their baby, it has emerged.
As gender selection is banned in the UK, couples desperate to balance their family by adding a boy or girl are flying to New York or Los Angeles.
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Balance? Do you mean that they are having certain sex embryos implanted?
Never underestimate the limits people will go to the killing of human beings.
The headline should read "Brits go to America to kill fetuses of the wrong sex" but that would be a bit to specific for "news", wouldn't it.