一位墨尔本妇女，已经有3个儿子，分别5岁，4岁和1岁，极度渴望想要一个女儿。但是澳洲目前对IVF过程中的性别选择还是不合法的，此项法规要拖到2012年才有机会重新检讨。
这位妇女等不及了，她决定到泰国去实现她的愿望，在那里通过IVF怀上一个女孩。
她说其实在澳洲她有一个很信任的GP，一个很好的IVF专家，但是因为性别选择是不合法的，她没有选择，只能去曼谷。为此她要付出超过15000澳币。
你认为这种情况下，可以允许性别选择吗？澳洲应该解除性别选择的禁令吗？
A MELBOURNE mum is so desperate to have a daughter she is travelling to Thailand so she can choose the sex of her next baby, frustrated at Australian medical authorities as they drag their feet over the issue.
Already blessed with three boys - aged 5, 4 and 1 - the 36-year-old and her husband say they have been forced to sidestep Australian laws because they cannot wait for federal medical authorities to decide if they will overturn their ban on the practice.
While she says her boys mean the world to her, the mother - who does not want to be identified for fear of reprisals against her family - will spend more than $15,000 to ensure she conceives a girl in a Bangkok clinic in the coming months.
"At this point I would do anything to have a daughter," she said.
"It is an ethical thing we have weighed up. It hasn't been a decision taken lightly but it is one we feel we have reached and we are happy with.
"I wouldn't trade my sons for a million daughters - this is not about my sons. It is about me and my husband wanting a daughter.
"For me, it is about the desire to have a daughter being such a strong desire in me that I can't seem to shake it."
Her family has been helped by a Victorian IVF specialist to carry out some of the testing and egg retrieval needed to prepare for pre-implantation genetic diagnosis in Thailand's Superior ART clinic, which will separate male and female embryos so only the female embryos are transferred.
She is annoyed a review of sex selection guidelines has been stalled, particularly after speaking with another woman in her situation who has been told by authorities that the review could drag into 2012.
"I have a supportive GP, who I have known for over a decade, and I now have a supportive IVF specialist. But the problem is that it does feel clandestine," she said.
"You are bringing it up secretly because you know it is illegal in Australia so it is a very uncomfortable position for me and other women to be in.
"You can't talk about it with friends or family - you don't want it to feel dirty or illegal.
"This being approved in Australia will not mean hundreds of women embarking on this journey because it will still be costly.
"We are not after taxpayer-funded treatment, we are happy to pay for it, but we want it in our own country with our own doctors."
Knowing her biological clock will not extend forever, the mother said she could not wait on the chance that sex selection bans would be lifted in Australia.
Rather than having an outright ban on using pre-implantation genetic diagnosis, the mother believes IVF doctors should be given the right to decide which families are suited to use sex selection based on their motives and psychological state, as well as the makeup of their existing family.
"It should be a choice between a woman, her family and the doctors. It is something that should be in consultation with doctors and not something a family should choose on their own.
"But with good consultation with an IVF doctor, it should be a choice that we are allowed to make.
"I understand the different points of view; I understand some people are happy with just sons and others with just daughters. I understand some people who can't have their own children would be thinking, 'you are lucky and you have three beautiful, healthy sons'. And that is true.
"But it is not about everyone else, it is about me and my husband and our choice, and women like me.
"We have all this technology available now and we don't need to use it open-slather, but I think we do need to use it with parameters, with doctors involved, to enhance our lives."
http://www.heraldsun.com.au/news ... rf7jo-1225889570100
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不该，但不是这个理由。对我来说这是个信仰问题
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早上我也听到这则新闻
个人认为可以放宽限制
譬如就如这位妈妈规定连续生了3个男孩,那么有一次机会豁免权可以选择性别
这样这种权利既不会被滥用,毕竟抚养4个孩子需要慎重考虑,
也不会没有照顾到有这种心情的父母
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如果放开三个的，没法说服那些连续生了两个男孩再想要一个女孩的
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我觉得3个正好
2个又太容易了些
毕竟养4个小孩压力很大
并且不是100%成功
要做的父母一定会慎重考虑的
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光你觉得不行啊，得所有的人都觉得才行
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我觉得任何情况下选择性别都不应该，除非是遗传疾病原因。
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选择2。。。。
我还不知道ivf是可以选择性别的啊。
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觉得不该接触
虽然我也只喜欢女孩
但仍然不赞成
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不应该.
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今天在公园看到一个中东妇女带了5个孩子，其中4个是女儿，最小那个在推车上，看不出性别，我觉得像这种情况如果能选择孩子性别还是可以理解的。
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