Sex Selection: Regulating Technology Enabling the Predetermination of a Child's Gender

Authors

Owen D. Jones

Document Type

Article

Publication Title

Harvard Journal of Law & Technology

Publication Date

1992

ISSN

0897-3393

Page Number

1

Keywords

sex selection, predetermination of gender, preselection, fetal gender-identification, prohibitionists, non-interventionists

Disciplines

Law | Law and Gender | Obstetrics and Gynecology | Sexuality and the Law

Abstract

The debate over the prohibition of sex (or gender) selection (also known as "preselection" or "predetermination"), has focused almost exclusively on the context of aborting a "wrong-sex" fetus after a fetal gender-identification procedure. Despite the fact that sex selection abortions represent only a small subset of sex selection procedures, attitudes toward the former are driving general policy approaches to the latter. However, the issues are analytically distinct, and only during the former infancy of the pre-conceptive (and non-abortive post-conceptive) technology for sex selection were members on both sides of the debate afforded the economy of using one logic to support views on two issues.

Recommended Citation

Owen D. Jones, Sex Selection: Regulating Technology Enabling the Predetermination of a Child's Gender, 6 Harvard Journal of Law & Technology. 1 (1992)
Available at: https://scholarship.law.vanderbilt.edu/faculty-publications/1069