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Global Health Travel is offering baby sex-selection trips to Thailand and Malaysia.
For $12,000, couples can spend 11 days in a luxury Bangkok hotel while they have IVF treatment to choose a baby boy or girl.
Cells are taken from the three-day-old embryo for gender screening, and a boy or girl is implanted before the pregnant woman flies home a few days later.
''Some people bring their whole family and make a holiday of it,'' Global Health Travel managing director Cassandra Italia said yesterday.
''It isn't something just the wealthy are doing, and we get 10 to 20 inquiries a month.''
Australian fertility experts want to end the nine-year domestic ban on using in vitro fertilisation to select the sex of a child.
Fertility Society of Australia president Mark Bowman said couples desperate for a baby boy or girl were flying to Thailand, the United States or Cyprus, where sex selection is legal.
His Sydney-based Genea clinic has set up a joint venture with a Thai clinic, Superior ART, where couples can have embryos gender-tested before implantation.
Associate Professor Bowman...
For $12,000, couples can spend 11 days in a luxury Bangkok hotel while they have IVF treatment to choose a baby boy or girl.
Cells are taken from the three-day-old embryo for gender screening, and a boy or girl is implanted before the pregnant woman flies home a few days later.
''Some people bring their whole family and make a holiday of it,'' Global Health Travel managing director Cassandra Italia said yesterday.
''It isn't something just the wealthy are doing, and we get 10 to 20 inquiries a month.''
Australian fertility experts want to end the nine-year domestic ban on using in vitro fertilisation to select the sex of a child.
Fertility Society of Australia president Mark Bowman said couples desperate for a baby boy or girl were flying to Thailand, the United States or Cyprus, where sex selection is legal.
His Sydney-based Genea clinic has set up a joint venture with a Thai clinic, Superior ART, where couples can have embryos gender-tested before implantation.
Associate Professor Bowman...