The company Plasmagen has designed an analysis that is performed on the pregnant woman to the eight weeks of gestation through which you can know the sex of the baby with 99% reliability.
In Germany, abortion is legal within the first 12 weeks of pregnancy, so the new test has generated an ethical dilemma Whether knowing the sex of the baby at an early stage of pregnancy would raise the number of voluntary abortions.
Some scientists believe that it could become a legal form of sex selection, which would allow aborting babies of unwanted sex, especially dangerous in countries where girls are considered a burden on the family.
For its part, the German Society of Human Genetics describes the test as "a bloody form of selection" and plans to ban it, as it ensures that it is a means for abortions to increase markedly in Germany, which already has a high rate.
A test to know the sex of the baby in a few weeks will excite many parents eager to know if they expect a boy or a girl.
It would be regrettable that a test that meant a scientific advance was banned because there are those who do not use it so naively and can misuse it.
