Struggles in Defining and Addressing Requests for “Family Balancing”: Ethical Issues Faced by Providers and Patients

Journal of Law, Medicine and Ethics 44 (4):616-629 (2016)
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Abstract

This study – the first to explore how infertility providers confront several critical dilemmas concerning sex selection of embryos for nonmedical, social reasons – highlights key challenges and questions. Clinicians struggle, for instance, with how to define “family balalancing”, when to offer it, and how to decide.

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