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Re: Boston Globe Profiles New Home Test That Allows Pregnant Women To Determine Sex of Fetus From: Anna Meenan, MD (annam@uic.edu) Wed Jun 29 11:35:10 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: Too Few C-sects, Dr. Sandland Responds" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Boston Globe Profiles New Home Test That Allows Pregnant Women To Determine Sex of Fetus" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Boston Globe Profiles New Home Test That Allows Pregnant Women To Determine Sex of Fetus" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Boston Globe Profiles New Home Test That Allows Pregnant Women To Determine Sex of Fetus" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Boston Globe Profiles New Home Test That Allows Pregnant Women To Determine Sex of Fetus" Has anyone studied the accuracy of this test? Anyway, why spend $250 when you can just pester your doc to order ultrasounds until you can tell the sex of the baby (at the expense of your insurance company or Public Aid). -- Anna Meenan, MD At Wed, 29 Jun 2005, φΉ@?wart fougner, md wrote: > >. > >Boston Globe Profiles New Home Test That Allows Pregnant Women To Determine Sex >of Fetus > >Access this story and related links online: > >http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=31035 > >The Boston Globe on Monday profiled a test launched earlier this month that >allows pregnant women in the United States to determine the sex of their fetus >as early as five weeks gestation. The $25 Baby Gender Mentor test, marketed by >Mommy's Thinkin' and available exclusively at pregnancystore.com, includes a >finger prick kit for pregnant women to collect a blood specimen. Women then can >send the blood sample to a laboratory based in Lowell, Mass., which analyzes >fetal DNA in the pregnant woman's blood for an additional charge of $250. Lab >technicians test the blood for the presence of a Y chromosome, which would >indicate the fetus is male, or the absence of the chromosome in the case of a >female fetus. The pregnant woman receives the test results in two to three >days. Although the test is aimed at "the type of woman who can't wait to open >Christmas presents," some ethicists and physicians are concerned the new test >could lead to sex-selective abortion, especially among cultures that favor male >children, according to the Globe. Most pregnant women have the opportunity to >learn the sex of their fetus during a routine ultrasound around 16 weeks >gestation, though the results are not 100% accurate (Goldberg, Boston Globe, >6/27). > >Dean Huffman Next message: Anna Meenan, MD: "Re: Too Few C-sects, Dr. Sandland Responds" Previous message: art fougner, md: "Boston Globe Profiles New Home Test That Allows Pregnant Women To Determine Sex of Fetus" In reply to: art fougner, md: "Boston Globe Profiles New Home Test That Allows Pregnant Women To Determine Sex of Fetus" Next in thread: art fougner, md: "Re: Boston Globe Profiles New Home Test That Allows Pregnant Women To Determine Sex of Fetus" Reply: art fougner, md: "Re: Boston Globe Profiles New Home Test That Allows Pregnant Women To Determine Sex of Fetus"

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