title: Preimplantation social sexing: a problem of proportionality and decision making.
abstract: Sex selection by sperm sorting seems ethically acceptable for social reasons. Sex selection after preimplantation embryo sexing results in the use of non-trivial means (discard healthy embryos) to fulfill a trivial desire. In this case, proportionality between means and ends is missing, and cultural reasons should not be accepted to justify its use.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cell Biology, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Bellaterra, Spain. josep.egozcue@uab.es
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Egozcue
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D019836:Preimplantation Diagnosis / Q000941:ethics*; D012743:Sex Preselection / Q000941:ethics*