LET them choose boys! Or girls! That’s what parents in the UK should be free to do, according to a parliamentary committee. Its controversial report calls for a relaxation of the rules on the use of reproductive technologies and human embryo research.
The report recommends that parents on IVF programmes be allowed to use pre-implantation genetic diagnosis to select the sex of a second or later child for “family-balancing” reasons. It is also unfair for IVF clinics to screen would-be parents to try to exclude child abusers, it says.
If accepted, the report’s recommendations would bring the UK more in…
