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Prenatal sex and race determination is a slippery slope
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I am deeply worried about your guest editorial,1 please allow me a few bullet points:
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Trying to dispel some of the counterarguments to sex selection, your argument of prospective parents’ autonomy is void. If anyone has a right to determine his or her sex, it would be the person concerned, in this case the unborn child. …
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