Re: For profit Gender determination with Ultrasound (NYT article)
From: Philippe Jeanty, MD,PHD (jeanty@TheFetus.net)
Wed Aug 15 13:55:24 2001
GOOD FOR YOU !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Please amend your files and change my E-mail from
jeanty@pov.net to
jeanty@TheFetus.net
-----Original Message-----
From: ultrasound@obgyn.net [mailto:ultrasound@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of art
fougner, md
Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 1:50 PM
To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND
Subject: Re: For profit Gender determination with Ultrasound (NYT article)
ps - just sent a note to the NY City Dept of Health.
art
At Wed, 15 Aug 2001, art fougner, md wrote:
>
>working in NY i sometimes get the feeling that the leading chromosomal
>abnormality in certain groups is the presence of the second X
>chromosome.
>
>ACOG put out a position paper offering that gender selection save for
>sex linked disorders was proscribed. apparently Dr. Khatamee and his
>ilk didn't get the message.
>hopefully, the city health dept will be more interested in this.
>
>art
>
>At Wed, 15 Aug 2001, Philippe Jeanty, MD,PHD wrote:
>>
>>This female genocide is simply disgusting and I hope that US
>>sonographers/sonologists will make all possible efforts to prevent Indian
>>citizens to bypass their country rules. I was in India recently and I was
>>appalled to learn that is some regions the atrocity has reached a level of
>>20% of female killed.
>>
>>Please do stand firm on this barbaric issue. I am a very prochoice person
>>but this genocide is worse than what we experienced in Europe 60 years
ago.
>>Please do stand firm on this barbaric issue. I am quite willing to use
>>http://www.TheFetus.net to assist anyone with a good idea to prevent this
from
>>happening in the US.
>>
>>Please amend your files and change my E-mail from
>>jeanty@pov.net to
>>jeanty@TheFetus.net
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
>>From: ultrasound@obgyn.net [mailto:ultrasound@obgyn.net] On Behalf Of
Rich
>>Dempsey RDMS/RVT
>>Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2001 8:12 AM
>>To: Multiple recipients of list ULTRASOUND
>>Subject: For profit Gender determination with Ultrasound (NYT article)
>>
>>An interesting story in the New York Times 8/15/01 :
>>
>>Clinics' Pitch to Indian Émigrés: It's a Boy
>>By SUSAN SACHS
>>
>>"An advertisement in India Abroad capitalizes on a cultural preference
>>for male babies.
>>
>>The pitch could not be more direct. The intended audience could not be
>>more specific.
>>
>>"Desire a Son?" asked an advertisement in recent editions of India
>>Abroad, a weekly newspaper for Indian expatriates in the United States
>>and Canada.
>>
>>"Choosing the sex of your baby: new scientific reality," declared
>>another in the same publication. A third ad ran in both India Abroad
>>and the North American edition of The Indian Express. "Pregnant?" it
>>said. "Wanna know the gender of your baby right now?"
>>
>>The full text is available at :
>>http://www.nytimes.com/2001/08/15/nyregion/15GEND.html
>>
>>It lists some of the US physicians and clinics involved in the practice.
>>It is ironic that this practice is (at least technically) illegal in
>>India, yet can flourish in the land of the free and fast buck.
>>
>>--
>>Rich Dempsey RDMS/RVT
>>
>--
>art fougner, md
>
>A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
>
--
art fougner, md
A series of 1000 cases begins with but a single anecdote.
