Sex Selection of Babies Forces New Debate ; More Parents Choose Controversial Technology
The Record, Bergen County, NJ › May 02, 2005
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Dr. Zalman Levine had a decision to make.
The mother sitting before him confessed that she cried herself to sleep each night, mourning the child she'd never had. Of course she loved her sons, now 3 and 6 years old, but the lack of a daughter consumed her. Only with a girl, she said, could she replicate the intense bond she had shared with her own mother.See the full content of this document
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Sex Selection of Babies Forces New Debate ; More Parents Choose Controversial Technology
Tearfully, she and her husband asked Levine to create embryos from their genetic material, incubate them in his Westwood lab and implant the most robust girl of the bunch.
Levine hesitated. The process, he told them, was risky, physically invasive and, at $20,000, wickedly expensive. Even then, it was no sure bet.The parents were not deterred.Pre-implantation genetic diagnosis...See the full content of this document
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