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Post by iCandy on Jan 3, 2011 13:24:01 GMT 1
In the newspaper report about the Elton John surrogacy story it said: "..You can be very specific depending on your wishes. If you want a musical baby with blue eyes whose mother went to Harvard you can probably find an egg donor to match..." Read more: www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1343395/Elton-Johns-new-baby-door-1-3m-luxury-flat.html#ixzz19yQf6GwZOn another message board somebody is making the rather unpleasant accusation that Elton John and his Partner David Furnish "ordered" a boy baby because they are gay men which (in this deranged person's mind) equates to paedophiles and so they wanted a boy so that they could sexually abuse it.* I wanted to challenge the idea that the sex of a baby in those circumstances could be arranged. But thought I'd better check first. Is it true that the chance of having a boy or a girl is the same in a surrogacy birth as in a more usual (natural) birth? And you can't just pick what you want. *I know, I know, I should probably find some nicer people to play with on a different board.
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Post by iCandy on Jan 3, 2011 17:23:46 GMT 1
No biology scientists here?
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Post by Progenitor A on Jan 3, 2011 18:14:41 GMT 1
It is quite easy to arrange the gender of a new-born child to make the appropriate fashion statement
Although I am not a full-time gynaecologist, looking up Wiki, I think that the process involves a scan and then discarding or accepting the discovered foetus dependent upon the bauble/baby accessory required
If you wish to find further information on this process then could I suggest that you contact a sub-continental mothers' co-operativre?
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Post by iCandy on Jan 3, 2011 18:34:20 GMT 1
the process involves a scan and then discarding or accepting the discovered foetus I see what you are suggesting (abortion). But that does not answer my question. Perhaps if I could ask it again in a slightly different way. The reason I quoted the passage from the newspaper in my opening post was because I think it gave the impression that surrogacy offered opportunities to people that a more, how shall I put it, traditional pregnancy would not. All that talk of being "specific" and asking for a blue-eyed musical baby etc. Some people could make the (erroneous?) assumption that would include the sex of a child. So, I ask again, does anyone here know if that is possible?
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Post by principled on Jan 3, 2011 19:24:25 GMT 1
iCandy I'm surprised you haven't realised that with money, anything is possible www.babycenter.com/0_choosing-your-babys-sex-what-the-scientists-say_2915.bcOne of a zillion websites on the subject. Whether, in this case, they chose the sex or not, I doubt we'll never know. And because there's a 50/50 chance of having a boy, without hard evidence we cannot cannot say for sure one way or the other. The only thing I know is that that in this life just because we can do something doesn't mean we should. Nevertheless, we now seem to be a society where what "I" want is superior to all other considerations. I can't help feeling that this attitude led to the demise of the Roman Empire and who knows what it will do to "us"? P
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Post by iCandy on Jan 3, 2011 20:21:18 GMT 1
I'm surprised you haven't realised that with money, anything is possible Whilst I am waiting for your link to load (it won't!) may I take the opportunity to challenge your assertion that "with money, anything is possible"... Perhaps you should tell that to the millionaire who is dying of (insert incurable disease of your choice) and see how short shrift really can be.
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