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you can detect sex and defects in embryos now and select for them? Is this expensive?

I thought public policy was avoiding this specific thing for this specific reason, but I’ve been admittedly out of the loop

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Yes, and they can do it at six weeks, too. Downs syndrome is the common thing to be avoided that they're testing for.