MetaFilter: Embryonic gender selection -- going strong and for sale in the U.S.A. ⇒
15 June 2006, lunch time
This has been discussed here in the past. The arguments I have heard about this practice in the West is that people aren't as inclined pick boys over girls here, so gender ratios don't get messed up. Ask.Mefi discusses the one-child policy in China.
This is a post from my link log: If you click the title of this post you will be taken the web page I am discussing.