AAP General News (Australia)
12-06-2008
Vic: Women travel to Thailand to choose sex of baby
Victorian women are travelling to Thailand to circumvent IVF sex-choice laws and pick
the sex of their babies.
The Herald Sun newspaper says trips costing up to 10-thousand dollars are being undertaken
by mothers desperate to choose the gender of their babies after the practice was overruled
by the Australian Health Ethics Committee in 2004.
Doctors face jail in Victoria for assisting with sex selections .. despite women asking
for assistance at clinics.
Thailand doesn't condone sex selection but several Thai clinics offer the service as
a cheaper alternative to the US .. where it's allowed.
Melbourne IVF chief executive Dr LYNDON HALE says he's refused a number of women seeking
assistance in the last year and admits to directing them to look on the internet for information.
AAP RTV ees/fdf
KEYWORD: GENDER (MELBOURNE)
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