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    Choose Your Child's Gender

    Yes! Look what I just found. I'm definitely slipping some of this in my wife's drink when the day comes.

    Baby Gender Selection - Safe and Effective - Conceive a boy or girl : GenSelect.com
    https://www.genselect.com
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    I always thought it was the mans Y chromosome that determined the sex of the child

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    • #3
      This reminds me of those Enlarge Your Penis websites with the testimonials and all.
      Achkerov kute.

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      • #4
        The doctor that conducted the clinical trials practices in India... couldn't find much else on him.
        I'm suspicious that they had almost 8000 participants though. That's too many. With that number any difference would show to be statistically significant.
        [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
        -Henry Ford[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

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        • #5
          Male or female, we're all xxxxed up in this xxxxed up world anyway.

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          • #6
            It's pretty old the fact you could eventually choose your child's gender. In belgium there are already numerous practitioners doing this but I don't recall how...

            But it's very costly and the % increase of chance you have that the child is what you chosed it to be is around 25%.

            You wouldn't spend money and time on this...

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            • #7
              OH MY GOD! people... what happened to good 'ol genes and medical advancements that more then prove that gender is predetermined by the guy's you know what that carries the chromozome for gender...???

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              • #8
                I sincerely doubt a boxed kit is going to be very accurate in helping make a baby female or male. But, you're right EEK! the gender of babies can already be clinically pre-'chosen' in the U.S. too. See the old thread where we had this topic:

                http://forum.armenianclub.com/showthread.php?t=1768
                Last edited by ckBejug; 11-16-2004, 12:01 PM.
                The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposing ideas in mind at the same time and still retain the ability to function. -- F. Scott Fitzgerald

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                • #9
                  I watched a segment on Fox News a few months ago which discussed the pros and cons of gender selection. A husband and wife bowed to the wishes of the grandfather and used new scientific techniques to get a 70% chance of having a boy baby instead of a girl. The process was done through invitro fertilization. They were successful and she delivered twin boys.

                  The good thing is that parents get what they want, but it the right thing to do morally? The bad side of this according to the opposition, is that with gender selection, more value is placed upon one sex than another. For instance, they quoted statistics from China and Cuba where something like 118 boys are born compared with every 100 girls. The long term consequences of this have caused countries like the UK to prohibit this practice. Although it is accomplished through abortion in the aforementioned countries, for much of the western world, this will be done by scientific human engineering. The results are 70-90% effective depending upon the techniques used.

                  What is your take on this? Do you feel it is wrong to "play God", or "Mother Nature"? Do you think the UK was right to ban this practice? Do you feel abortion is a more viable alternative to pre-determine the sex of a child? Should we leave well enough alone and accept what we get? Will this take all of the fun out of passing out cigars at the hospital? Whoops! That's not politically correct, either, is it!

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                  • #10
                    I don't know if I mentioned this here before, but a couple years ago I saw this ridiculous article in the daily news or the times about the effects of smoking on the gender of babies.
                    It said that they had a sample of 5000 and they found that parents who are smokers are significantly more likely to have girls. So, if you want a girl, smoke.

                    I couldn't believe my eyes. The percentage of boys to girls was only different by like one or two percent in the smoking population and they're claiming that it makes a significant difference. What about practical significance?

                    In all likelihood the difference they did have occured because female embryos are more likely to survive undesireable conditions and teratogens than are male embryos, so it's totally pausible that smokers have other poor health habits as well which could have produced that small difference.

                    Not only did they lie with stats by using a gigantic sample size to make it significantly different, but they also completely ignored any other possible explanations for the difference and claimed it was CAUSED by smoking. They had no experimental control over smoking and have no right to make that claim.

                    The point: Be careful what you believe. There's lots of crap in the media that's presented as truth. I'm not sure I believe this thing either. That's why I tried to look to google the doctor and I got not a single research citation. Yet he was put in charge of this HUGE clinical trial? Hmm... something's not right with that.
                    [COLOR=#4b0082][B][SIZE=4][FONT=trebuchet ms]“If you think you can, or you can’t, you’re right.”
                    -Henry Ford[/FONT][/SIZE][/B][/COLOR]

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