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Selecting the sex of babies goes back to the Greek Empire and will get cheaper, easier and harder to regulate against, international scientist Professor Lord Robert Winston says.
The world-renowned human reproduction expert and BBC documentary star spoke to the Herald on Sunday, before receiving an honorary doctor of science from the University of Auckland last night.
Jenny Gibbs, 25 years on the university's council and twice pro-chancellor, received an honorary doctor of literature at the same ceremony.
Professor Winston, who frequently addresses Britain's House of Lords - of which he is a member - on education, science, medicine and the arts, told the Herald the current debate in New Zealand on legalising sex selection in IVF babies was being over-hyped.
The Bioethics Council last week advised the Government there were insufficient cultural, ethical and spiritual reasons to prohibit the use of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for sex selection for social reasons, such as family balancing - providing the PGD was done at the parents' cost.
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Commentators' reactions and public feedback indicated that advice was unpopular with many...
The world-renowned human reproduction expert and BBC documentary star spoke to the Herald on Sunday, before receiving an honorary doctor of science from the University of Auckland last night.
Jenny Gibbs, 25 years on the university's council and twice pro-chancellor, received an honorary doctor of literature at the same ceremony.
Professor Winston, who frequently addresses Britain's House of Lords - of which he is a member - on education, science, medicine and the arts, told the Herald the current debate in New Zealand on legalising sex selection in IVF babies was being over-hyped.
The Bioethics Council last week advised the Government there were insufficient cultural, ethical and spiritual reasons to prohibit the use of pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD) for sex selection for social reasons, such as family balancing - providing the PGD was done at the parents' cost.
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Commentators' reactions and public feedback indicated that advice was unpopular with many...