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Re: OB: Good, Bad, Or Ugly? From: R. Daniel Braun (rd.braun@gmail.com) Wed Aug 17 07:32:15 2005 Messages sorted by: [ date ][ thread ][ subject ][ author ] Next message: Seele, Mona: "Re: GBS" Previous message: art fougner, md: "OB: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?" In reply to: art fougner, md: "OB: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?" Next in thread: Charlie Chambers: "Re: OB: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?" And they can't pay a $10 copay on their insurance to make their first prenatal visit on time. Dan On 8/17/05, art fougner, md <evsono@pipeline.com> wrote: > > Kit makes it womb with a view > > BY MAGGIE HABERMAN > DAILY NEWS STAFF WRITER > > Forget about sonograms and amniocentesis tests - a new take-home kit > allows expectant moms to find out their baby's gender as early as five > weeks into their pregnancy. > > "People just want to plan ahead, and this allows them to plan ahead even > further," said Sherry Bonelli, president of pregnancystore.com<http://pregnancystore.com>, > the > online outlet selling the Baby Gender Mentor. > > Parents who buy the $25 kit get a tool to prick their fingers for a > small blood sample that is sent to a lab in Massachusetts. > > For $250 in lab fees, the results come within 48 hours. > > The lab techs identify the baby's DNA in the mother's blood. If there's > a Y chromosome found, parents can start buying blue onesies; if there > isn't, it's pink wallpaper for the nursery. > > Bonelli said she has sold thousands of kits since they became available > in June. Some couples want to prepare siblings for the arrival of a > baby; one engaged couple wanted to coordinate their wedding favors with > their unborn child's sex, she added. > > But some bioethicists fear that since the test is taken while the embryo > is so unformed, some people will use it to end early pregnancies if they > don't get the boy or girl they were hoping for. > > http://www.nydailynews.com/08-16-2005/city_life/story/337700p-288375c.html > > art > > -- > art fougner, md > > "If you don't know where you are going, you will wind up somewhere else." > Lawrence Peter Berra > -- R. Daniel Braun Kinky for Governor Next message: Seele, Mona: "Re: GBS" Previous message: art fougner, md: "OB: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?" In reply to: art fougner, md: "OB: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?" Next in thread: Charlie Chambers: "Re: OB: Good, Bad, Or Ugly?"

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