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Science | The United States is a new mecca for parents who choose their baby’s sex
Some couples want a baby boy badly. So badly they’re willing to fly halfway around the world to get one. Destination? The United States.
Dr. Jeffrey Steinberg, director of The Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles and New York City, has for several years offered a fertility procedure allowing affluent couples to choose their baby’s gender. Sex selection, outlawed in many countries, is legal in the United States: Steinberg’s clinics have treated “thousands” of couples from India, China, Canada, Australia, the United Kingdom, and 142 other nations.
Steinberg recently told the London Evening Standard that he’s helped around 400 British couples conceive their choice of a boy or girl. They sometimes pay $45,000 or more for one of Steinberg’s package deals that includes treatment, plane tickets, and a hotel.







Boobie the Rocket Dog
October 5th, 2012
What happens to a population that produces geometrically more cocks than hens?
It produces capons.
Ya sure
October 5th, 2012
“Dr” Jeffrey Steinberg should have his license to practice medicine rescinded. Ethics?! Sheeit.
Could anyone argue that his Clinic is not all about money?
Maudie N Mandeville
October 5th, 2012
Forget the liberal’s War on Women, how soon do you think they will be rushing to Dr. Jeff when the ‘gay gene’ is discovered and can be weeded out?
Compassion, my ass.
Stranded in Sonoma
October 5th, 2012
@Maudie — Many libtards claim a gay gene because homosexuals say they’ve “always felt that way.” What about pedophiles? They also claim that they’ve “always felt that way.” Is pedophilia genetic?
What if both homosexualality and pedophilia are genetic and are caused by the same gene? See where this is going? Some parents have their unborn baby checked and discover the homo/pedo gene. The parents want to abort the baby for fear of unleashing a pedophile on the world. But a homosexual rights group takes the parents to court to stop the abortion of a potential homosexual. You know it would happen. Of course, the parents would be “protected” against homosexual backlash because they can always claim one less pedophile. But the liberal press would support the homosexuals and claim it was an anti-gay agenda.
It’s an interesting thought exercise that I wish the kids in high school and college had to go through. But the homosexual activists will not allow it.
Stranded in Sonoma
October 5th, 2012
As for the topic — I’m of two minds about the story.
This doctor has found a need in the parenting community and has done what any enterprising person would do; he has filled that need and is earning a good living doing it. He is also creating jobs. And isn’t that what we are always on about here?
I don’t agree with slavery. In any way. But at one time in this country slavery was legal. Democrats would buy and sell humans. Some people were enterprising enough to make money from that. If I was alive at that time, I would not have been a slave holder or done business with those buying and selling slaves.
This case is similar. I don’t like what the doctor is doing but what he is doing is legal. He’s also making a good living for himself and employing others and making his customers happy. I detest his business but I would do what all of us on this blog have claimed we should do to businesses we don’t like — don’t patronize them.
The only other alternative is to repeal the law that allows for this. And isn’t that rather fascist or nazi-esque in passing a law to stop behavior you don’t like?
Just some things to think about.
Mountain Dog
October 5th, 2012
Are we not cursed enough already without insulting our Creator by making His decisions for Him?
dba_vagabond_trader
October 5th, 2012
China is already at the point where men outnumber available women. Their depraved practices will lead to extinction in about a generation or two.
Carlos The Jackal
October 5th, 2012
I think we need to quit using ‘mecca’ as a synonym for something desireable.