PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Liao, S Matthew
TI  - The ethics of using genetic engineering for sex selection
AID  - 10.1136/jme.2003.005983
DP  - 2005 Feb 01
TA  - Journal of Medical Ethics
PG  - 116--118
VI  - 31
IP  - 2
4099  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/2/116.short
4100  - http://jme.bmj.com/content/31/2/116.full
SO  - J Med Ethics2005 Feb 01; 31
AB  - It is quite likely that parents will soon be able to use genetic engineering to select the sex of their child by directly manipulating the sex of an embryo. Some might think that this method would be a more ethical method of sex selection than present technologies such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) because, unlike PGD, it does not need to create and destroy “wrong gendered” embryos. This paper argues that those who object to present technologies on the grounds that the embryo is a person are unlikely to be persuaded by this proposal, though for different reasons.