Home Gender Test Raises Concerns of Sex Selection Abortions

First came the home pregnancy test. Now here comes the home gender test. A new blood test being marketed to American women offers them the chance to find out whether they are having a boy or a girl almost as soon as they realize they are pregnant, as early as five weeks along. Just two or three days after mailing the test overnight to a Lowell lab for processing, a pregnant woman can know what color to paint the nursery -- or even decide whether to get an abortion if she wants a child of the opposite sex, a prospect that worries ethicists.[?]

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Baby Trend: More Boys are Born Than Girls
It may be one of America's longest-running baby trends -- the birth of more boys than girls. The CDC's latest records are for 2002, when newborn boys outnumbered girls by more than 94,000 infants. The trend dates back to 1940. That's before the attack on Pearl Harbor, when the baby boom generation was just a twinkle in their parents' eyes. Every year from 1940 through 2002, an average of 91,685 more boys were born in the U.S. than girls. That adds up to a difference of more than 5.7 million boys, says the CDC. Posted by Editor at June 28, 2005 08:28 AM