In Most of the World, It’s Banned. In America, Some Parents Will Stop at Nothing to Create the Perfect Baby.

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In Most of the World, It’s Banned. In America, Some Parents Will Stop at Nothing to Create the Perfect Baby.
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Little girls are better than little boys—according to these people.

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Some of the sex selectors admit that this is all fraught. “My main concern is that that puts pressure on the child to be a certain way,” Lexi told me. She reassures herself by saying that she’s not choosing specific personality traits or even gender: She and her husband are merely “weighting the dice.” One mother, who’s doing IVF to give her daughter a sister—a built-in best friend, she hopes—told me that the pressure can be crushing.

Grace is aware that her disdain for boys may “seem dumb or offensive” to someone who is struggling to conceive, let alone the millions of infertile Americans who can’t afford even the most basic fertility care. In fact, all of the prospective girl parents I spoke to expressed enormous empathy for those unable to have a child of either sex; almost everyone agrees that the way IVF is funded in the U.S. is unfair.

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