HealthWatch: More Parents Deciding Sex Of Children [Video]
By Kim Mulvihill,
CBS San Francisco
| 12. 28. 2012
[With CGS's Marcy Darnovsky]
More Bay Area parents are spending thousands of dollars to select if their child will be a boy or girl. The rising popularity of the procedure concerns medical ethicists. Dr. Kim Mulvihill reports.
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