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Sophie and her husband are set to spend more than £100,000 in travel and medical bills as they fly between England and the US in their bid to have another child.
The couple are undergoing IVF treatment in New York to access embryo screening procedures not legally permitted in the UK in order to select the sex of their next baby.
“Our six-year-old son has profound autism,” said Sophie, who spoke to the FT on condition of anonymity. “He needs wraparound care and his life involves a level of daily suffering that most people cannot imagine.”
The couple were advised by a private genetics consultant in the UK that “autism has a higher chance of reoccurrence” in male siblings, “so, from a statistical point of view, sex selection could reduce the risk of our next child being severely disabled”, she added.
Sophie and her husband will use pre-implantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) — a method primarily used for detecting any missing or extra chromosomes — which can also reveal embryo sex.
In the UK, PGT-A for sex selection for...