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Pro-choice women’s health and public interest advocates, along with scholars and medical professionals, have been following for some time the development of blood tests that can determine fetal sex early in pregnancy. The tests raise concerns about the well-being of children, women and families and the prospect of testing for additional traits other than sex.
In the event of future coverage of these issues, we list here several sources that you may wish to contact, along with relevant links.
Marcy Darnovsky, Associate Executive Director, Center for Genetics and Society, mdarnovsky@geneticsandsociety.org
- Article in Science Progress: “One Step Closer to Designer Babies: New Noninvasive Prenatal Genetic Testing Could Change Human Pregnancy Forever”
Jaime King, Associate Professor of Law, UC Hastings, kingja@uchastings.edu
- Article in Rutgers Law Journal: “And Genetic Testing for All....The Coming Revolution in Prenatal Genetic Testing”
Mara Hvistendahl, Beijing Correspondent, Science Magazine, mara.hvistendahl@gmail.com
- Author, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls, and the Consequences of a World Full of Men
- Article in Foreign Policy: “The Abortion Trap: How America's obsession with abortion hurts families everywhere”
Sunita Puri, M.D., Resident Physician, UC San Francisco Department of Internal Medicine, sunita.puri@gmail.com
- Article in Slate: “‘I Know It's a Girl, and I Need Your Help To Get It Out of Me.’”2 academic articles on patients’ and physicians’ experiences with sex selection
Rajani Bhatia Doctoral Candidate in Women’s Studies (working on sex selection), University of Maryland, rajani@umd.edu
The Center for Genetics and Society is a non-profit public affairs and policy advocacy organization working to encourage responsible uses and effective societal governance of human genetic and reproductive biotechnologies.
Contact:
Doug Pet
dpet[AT]geneticsandsociety[DOT]org
Marcy Darnovsky
mdarnovsky[AT]geneticsandsociety[DOT]org
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