title: Ethical considerations in sex selection.
abstract: Advances in modern medicine are resulted from unrestricted and unlimited research disregarding many essentials of a research including ethical issues. Following ethical issues, many of unwanted pregnancies and abortions can be avoided. Several factors such as medical issues including X linked disease, has encouraged couples to select traditional or modern techniques in selecting the gender of their children. Some of these methods are corrected Swim-up method or washing of spermatozoa, Percoll gradient sperm separation method, grass wool column filter method method, albumin separation method, microsort method using FISH (Fluorescence in situ hybridization), free electrophoresis method, Ph adjustment method, pre implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD)/fluorescence in situ hybridization. This technology is confronted with many ethical issues. Ethical considerations PGD in the SEX SELECTION differ in different religions and their perspectives on this issue. In this this review, electronic databases, books and Internet sites were completely searched and full articles including required keywords and techniques were obtained and reviewed. The rites and religions, were different and had legal perspectives and opinions about PGD. In some non-Islamic countries there are strict rules to control the use of technology. Some of these methods are costly and even risky. They also involve ethical issues such as legitimacy of the conceived fetus; recommending final touches in sex selection is still considered a taboo and a big issue in some cultures or mono-sexual families. Islamic views and beliefs are more flexible and the use of these technologies are allowed to preserve the health and lives permit. Islam strongly favors humanity and supports different issues if they are not in conflict with the primary concept of legitimate reproduction and are beneficial to human beings.
authors.affiliation: Molecular Medicine Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
authors.forename: Tasnim Eghbal
authors.initials: TE
authors.lastname: Eftekhaari
authors.affiliation: Molecular Medicine Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
authors.forename: Abdol Azim
authors.initials: AA
authors.lastname: Nejatizadeh
authors.affiliation: Fertility and Infertility Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
authors.forename: Minoo
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Rajaei
authors.affiliation: Molecular Medicine Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
authors.forename: Saeede
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Soleimanian
authors.affiliation: Molecular Medicine Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
authors.forename: Soghra
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Fallahi
authors.affiliation: Student Research Committee, Department of Research and Technology, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
authors.forename: Rahman
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ghaffarzadegan
authors.affiliation: Fertility and Infertility Research Center, Hormozgan University of Medical Sciences, Bandar Abbas, Iran.
authors.forename: Forough
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Mahmoudi
keywords: Disadvantages of sex selection method; Islam view; ethics