scholarly journals Pre-Implantation Gender Selection: Family Balancing in Jordan

2021 ◽  
Vol Volume 14 ◽  
pp. 2797-2801
Author(s):  
Amer Mahmoud Sindiani ◽  
Faheem Zayed ◽  
Eman Hussein Alshdaifat ◽  
Hasan Rawashdeh ◽  
Wesam Al-Woshah ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gender Selection ◽  
Family Balancing

scholarly journals The Australian Community Does Not Support Gender Selection by IVF for Social Reasons

2013 ◽  
Vol 2013 ◽  
pp. 1-3
Author(s):  
Kovacs Gab ◽  
McCrann Julian ◽  
Levine Michele ◽  
Morgan Gary
Keyword(s):  
Geographical Area ◽  
Australian Population ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
Gender Selection ◽  
Family Balancing ◽  
Gender And Age ◽  
Australian Community ◽  
Infertile Couples ◽  
Selection For ◽  
Electronic White Pages

This study was carried out to determine the attitudes of the Australian community to IVF by a reliable community poll. Cross-sectional surveys, conducted by telephone of a random sample of 650 Australians were undertaken. The sample was drawn from the residential phone numbers in the Australian electronic “White Pages” and stratified by geographical area with quotas controlled by gender and age to be representative of the Australian population. The participants were asked to answer to three questions about gender selection, and their response was measured as “yes-allowed,” “no-not allowed,” or “undecided” for each of the questions. Whilst 91% of respondents supported the use of IVF to help infertile couples, only 20% supported gender selection within IVF or for family balancing. When it came to the use of IVF only for gender selection, only 17% were in favour. This survey shows that Australian community overwhelmingly opposes gender selection for social reasons.

Pink and Blue: Assemblages of Family Balancing and the Making of Dubai as a Fertility Destination

2018 ◽  
Vol 44 (1) ◽  
pp. 97-117 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charlotte Kroløkke ◽  
Filareti Kotsi
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Success ◽  
Genetic Diagnosis ◽  
Reproductive Technologies ◽  
Success Rates ◽  
Gender Selection ◽  
Multimodal Analysis ◽  
Family Balance ◽  
Family Balancing ◽  
The Family ◽  
Depth Interviews

Selective reproductive technologies (SRTs), such as preimplantation genetic diagnosis, enable enhanced clinical success rates, create reproductive choices, and produce new commercial opportunities. Drawing upon empirical material acquired during a ten-month period in 2016, this study uses a total of twenty-two in-depth interviews with doctors, CEOs, clinical directors, marketing directors, patient counselors, and embryologists to discuss how traveling for the SRT of gender selection for nonmedical reasons is mediated by fertility clinics and clinicians in Dubai. Multimodal analysis was used to analyze the clinical websites’ key rhetorical and visual features. Meanwhile, interviews and observational studies highlighted the context within which gender selection takes place. Findings revealed that gender selection is promoted as a form of “enhancement” and “family balance,” which, when combined with the ways that Dubai is assembled as a sensory (fertility) tourist destination, routinize SRTs and lead to an understanding of gender selection as not merely an individualized reproductive journey but an optimization of the family unit.

The Flip Side of the Auditory Spatial Selection Benefit

2015 ◽  
Vol 62 (1) ◽  
pp. 66-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Iring Koch ◽  
Vera Lawo
Keyword(s):  
Task Switching ◽  
Auditory Task ◽  
Numerical Magnitude ◽  
Attention Shifting ◽  
Gender Selection ◽  
Spatial Selection ◽  
Number Words ◽  
Switch Costs ◽  
Mixing Costs ◽  
Experimental Group

In cued auditory task switching, one of two dichotically presented number words, spoken by a female and a male, had to be judged according to its numerical magnitude. One experimental group selected targets by speaker gender and another group by ear of presentation. In mixed-task blocks, the target-defining feature (male/female vs. left/right) was cued prior to each trial, but in pure blocks it remained constant. Compared to selection by gender, selection by ear led to better performance in pure blocks than in mixed blocks, resulting in larger “global” mixing costs for ear-based selection. Selection by ear also led to larger “local” switch costs in mixed blocks, but this finding was partially mediated by differential cue-repetition benefits. Together, the data suggest that requirements of attention shifting diminish the auditory spatial selection benefit.

Pre-conceptual sex selection

2014 ◽  
Vol 155 (46) ◽  
pp. 1815-1819
Author(s):  
Máté Julesz
Keyword(s):  
Catholic Church ◽  
The United States ◽  
Criminal Code ◽  
Sex Selection ◽  
Reproductive Justice ◽  
Medically Assisted Procreation ◽  
Family Balancing ◽  
European Health ◽  
Selection For ◽  
The Catholic Church

According to Article 14 of the Oviedo Convention on Human Rights and Biomedicine of the Council of Europe, the use of techniques of medically assisted procreation shall not be allowed for the purpose of choosing a future child’s sex, unless serious hereditary sex-related disease is to be avoided. In Israel and the United States of America, pre-conceptual sex selection for the purpose of family balancing is legal. The European health culture does not take reproductive justice for part of social justice. From this aspect, the situation is very similar in China and India. Reproductive liberty is opposed by the Catholic Church, too. According to the Catholic Church, medical grounds may not justify pre-conceptual sex selection, though being bioethically less harmful than family balancing for social reasons. In Hungary, according to Section 170 of the Criminal Code, pre-conceptual sex selection for the purpose of family balancing constitutes a crime. At present, the Hungarian legislation is in full harmony with the Oviedo Convention, enacted in Hungary in 2002 (Act No. 6 of 2002). Orv. Hetil., 2014, 155(46), 1815–1819.

Scientific aspects of preconception gender selection

2005 ◽  
Vol 10 ◽  
pp. 111-115 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph D Schulman ◽  
David S Karabinus
Keyword(s):  
Gender Selection
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