- Parents choosing baby's eye, hair colour
- The Herald Sun
- 31/01/2009 Make a Comment
- Contributed by: The Rooster ( 258 articles in 2009 )
AUSTRALIAN couples are rushing in droves to a US fertility clinic that allows them to choose not only the sex of their child, but features such as hair and eye colour.
California-based Jeffrey Steinberg said he had spoken to 14 Australian couples this month.
"It's an advance of the technology and whenever there's an advance you can see the good side of it and the bad side of it," Dr Steinberg of The Fertility Institutes said.
"The good side of it is there are children born with albinism, they are unable to make eye pigment, vulnerable to ultra-violet light and a good number of them end up blind. We started out trying to help these children and in the process we're learning how to predict eye colour."
The controversial side is that parents can choose hair and eye colour of a future child.
Dr Steinberg sees dozens of Australian couples annually .
The clinic has also been in the spotlight for its contraversial rent-a-womb program.
More than 100 gay Australian couples have paid $80,000 to create a baby using rent-a-womb women in the US, a fertility clinic.
The scheme, branded as "one-stop baby shopping", is becoming increasingly popular among professional gay men in Sydney and Melbourne.
Dr Steinberg said Australia was one of the clinic's biggest markets.
California-based Jeffrey Steinberg said he had spoken to 14 Australian couples this month.
"It's an advance of the technology and whenever there's an advance you can see the good side of it and the bad side of it," Dr Steinberg of The Fertility Institutes said.
"The good side of it is there are children born with albinism, they are unable to make eye pigment, vulnerable to ultra-violet light and a good number of them end up blind. We started out trying to help these children and in the process we're learning how to predict eye colour."
The controversial side is that parents can choose hair and eye colour of a future child.
Dr Steinberg sees dozens of Australian couples annually .
The clinic has also been in the spotlight for its contraversial rent-a-womb program.
More than 100 gay Australian couples have paid $80,000 to create a baby using rent-a-womb women in the US, a fertility clinic.
The scheme, branded as "one-stop baby shopping", is becoming increasingly popular among professional gay men in Sydney and Melbourne.
Dr Steinberg said Australia was one of the clinic's biggest markets.
Source: https://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/0,21985,24988006-662,00.html
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