title: No country is an island: comment on the House of Commons report Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law.
abstract: In its recent report Human Reproductive Technologies and the Law, the House of Commons' Select Committee on Science and Technology insisted that the United Kingdom 'does not take a purely insular view' on sex selection but to carefully consider the impact on other countries before allowing changes to current legislation. True, no country is an island, not even the British Isles. Still, outlawing a harmless practice in Great Britain because of its alleged harmful effects in other countries is bad public policy.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Dermatology and Andrology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, 14 Gaffky Street, 35392 Giessen, Germany. Edgar.Dahl@derma.med.uni-giessen.de
authors.forename: Edgar
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Dahl
mesh_terms: D002681:China; D005260:Female; D033161:Government Regulation; D006801:Humans; D007194:India; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011247:Pregnancy; D019836:Preimplantation Diagnosis / Q000379:methods; D011287:Prejudice; D027724:Reproductive Techniques, Assisted / Q000331:legislation & jurisprudence* / Q000523:psychology; D012743:Sex Preselection / Q000941:ethics / Q000379:methods / Q000523:psychology*; D012744:Sex Ratio; D006113:United Kingdom