#We do not even know how many frozen embryos we have in the USA

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Since I touched on this with the articles about Jojo Siwa already planning on having 1 girl and 2 boys and the twibling article with the gay men who just happened to have had two boys through surrogacy ........

Rise in parents engaging in sex-selection during IVF has the fertility biz booming

By Cassy Fiano-Chesser | May 14, 2024 

The fertility industry has opened new doors for countless would-be parents across the globe, and it’s not just doors allowing them to have children. Thanks to in-vitro fertilization (IVF), people can create their children and then have them tested to ensure they meet all the right specifications. While this brave new world sounds like something out of a science fiction novel, it’s all too real – and using IVF to select the kind of child you want is becoming more and more common.

In 2021, socialite and reality television alum Paris Hilton announced her plans to use IVF to create her family, and choosing the sex of her babies was one of the reasons. “Well, we have been doing the IVF. So I can pick twins if I like. Kim [Kardashian] is actually the one who told me about that, I didn’t even know anything about it. And I’m happy she told me that advice, and introduced me to her doctor, so yeah. We have them all ready to go,” she said, continuing, “I think it’s just something most women should do, just to have. And then you can pick if you want boys or girls — just because I really want to have twins that are a boy and a girl. The only way to 100% get that is by making it happen that way.”

Hilton is hardly alone. The number of people foregoing sex in favor of IVF in order to have children is growing — as is sex selection. Though, according to the Daily Mail, sex selection is illegal in most of the globe, it isn’t in the United States, and it’s become trendy.

“The market is the size of the human race,” Jeffrey Steinberg, founder of the Fertility Institutes in Los Angeles, said in an interview with Slate. He claimed 85% of his clients are drawn in by the idea of choosing their baby’s sex.

Sex selection has long been practiced, albeit not using IVF; instead, parents sometimes found out the sex of their baby during an ultrasound, and if it was the “wrong” sex, they sought an abortion. Though this has typically been a way to bolster a cultural preference for boys, Slate pointed out that in the United States, it’s become the opposite: the market is skewed toward girls.

Sharon Moayeri, the founder of OC Fertility in Newport Beach, California, does not market the ability to choose the baby’s sex as aggressively as Steinberg does, and therefore, said only around 15% of her clients arrive without fertility issues. Another doctor at the medical center at the University of California San Francisco told Slate that “single mothers by choice, same-sex couples, and families with a history of autism” were typically more likely to request girls. A study also found that white parents having their first child chose female embryos 70% of the time.

"When I think about having a child that’s a boy, it’s almost a repulsion, like, Oh my God, no,” one woman said.

Another argued, “Boy children tend to be less caring towards their parents. It doesn’t really matter if it’s socialized or biological. It’s probably socialized, but I can’t change all of society.”

And because laws in other countries ban sex selection, thousands of people fly to the United States each year just to take advantage of this country’s lax fertility regulations. And it means big business for the fertility industry.

“It’s a moneymaking industry,” Laura Kerwin, a Harvard-trained psychologist, told Slate. “People need to realize that [clinics] have a fiduciary duty to their shareholders to make money. They’re trying to sell you on an option.”

There is little to no oversight within the fertility industry, meaning there is little to no information on what the current state of the industry is. “We do not even know how many frozen embryos we have in this country,” Margaret Marsh, a professor at Rutgers University, told the Atlantic, explaining that the last count — 400,000 — was 20 years ago. “[Today] we have no idea.”

The Atlantic also noted that 75% of fertility clinics advertise sex-selection as an offered service, allowing people to undergo IVF simply because they want to choose if they have a boy or a girl. Steinberg told the Atlantic this “service” makes the fertility industry approximately $90 million each year.

Steinberg also scoffed at the notion of increased regulations, saying it is “putting the handcuffs on scientists.” Then, using pro-abortion terminology, he added, “If there’s anything society should have learned, it’s ‘Keep their hands off of people’s reproductive choices’.”

IVF, though often described as a way to help heartbroken infertile couples to create families, has created a monster in which children are no longer treated as human beings, but as products to be designed, engineered, and then sold to the highest bidder upon demand. And as these embryonic children are products, they can be screened, destroyed, traded, and even turned into jewelry.

Any attempts to cut back on this commodification is swiftly attacked as cruelty towards the infertile — but what about the children being created? What will it take for the line to be drawn and a stop be placed on this reproductive free-for-all?

I checked on that statement about embryos turned into jewelry and found articles mostly dating back to 2018. But it did happen.

https://www.genethique.org/jewellery-made-from-supernumerary-embryos-obtained-after-ivf/?lang=en

"When I think about having a child that’s a boy, it’s almost a repulsion, like, Oh my God, no,” one woman said. While I get that I'm still creeped out about this being a big international business.

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More Shin Godzilla thinkings.

This one is going to be more spoilerific for film details, but a tighter focus than my last ramble. Y’all warned. I have a train of thought regarding Godzilla’s evolution within this film, and it’s one that, to date, I’ve not encountered anyone else postulate. Those of you who have seen the film will be aware that Godzilla is a constantly evolving super-life-form in Shin Godzilla, and the final shot of the film is one that has had a lot of different theories postulated. Reminder if you need it: the shot is of the end of the now-frozen Godzilla’s tail budding off into multiple humanoid skeletal forms with Godzilla traits to them (tails and fins). The general, and no doubt desired, reaction has been “What the hell is this? What does it mean? Why is it happening?” I’ve seen folks saying that they believe that it means Godzilla has somehow absorbed the humans caught in his rampage, that he is made up of them and this is him ‘falling apart’. It is, of course, the next step of Godzilla’s genetic evolution. The art book even designates the concept unambiguously as the “5th form”. But humans? Why? Again, I’ve seen folks postulate that it’s an evolution which is occurring in direct reaction to “becoming aware of the humans fighting him”. I don’t buy that one. It’s always the machines of man that get his attention, and he’s been encountering them, and people for that matter, since the start of the film. What I’d like to do instead is look at the evidence that Anno litters throughout the film. Yes, we are told that Godzilla is an evolutionary superbeing. We are told that it seems to be within his nature to continually evolve. We are given speculation that he may become smaller, or sprout wings and fly. But there are other things that are not made so blatant. And there are the studies of one Maki Goro. Maki Goro, the film explains, lost everything he had to live for to nuclear energy. He is a professor that discovers the original mutation in Tokyo Bay that would years later become Godzilla, and studies it for the USA. He is the one that figures out that it’s origins are based in exposure to the dumping of radioactive waste in the area, he is the one who discovers it’s ability for spontanious mutation, and he is the one who predicts the events of the film. “Predicts” turns out to not exactly be the right word though. to the world that took everything from him he leaves his data and a final simple message: “I did what I wanted. Now do what you like.” His data and message are found in an abandoned sailboat directly above where Godzilla would awaken. Of the man himself, there is no sign. The life-form that would become Godzilla has existed in this location, within the bay, completely unnoticed, for years. Why does it awaken now? Why does it suddenly evolve? Because it was exposed to something new: Maki Goro himself. My thoughts are that Goro and the life-form merged, and that, suddenly filled with the genetic traits of a creature of an entirely different habitat, the life-form began a rapid and desperate evolution, and headed for land. This would go to explain why it happens so suddenly within the film, why the new form (which looked so much like it was barely out of the foetal stage, and thus, at it’s most vulnerable) headed for land instinctively, and why it moved and behaved so erratically at this time. The creature calms, and it attempts to stand upright like the new genetic information tells it to. It fails, and the next evolutionary development is triggered. Which in turn, and as the film explains, overheats it and forces it to retreat back to water for a cooling period. When Godzilla next returns it has mutated further into a form perfectly adapted for life on land. (This next paragraph is an aside, and is not relevent to the evolution idea. Godzilla still has one very dangerous genetic trait; the nuclear “reactor” within it’s body that both energises it and also constantly creates excess energy which it stores within it’s cells. When provoked, Godzilla releases this excess energy in powerful and destructive discharges which, if used up, forces him into a state of dormancy to regenerate his power. This also postpones any further evolution for a while.) As stated earlier, the film already offered the theory that future mutations may reduce Godzilla’s height. This turns out to be correct, as seen in the 5th form. Godzilla begins to shed the humanoid forms from his tail as he is frozen. Why are they humanoid? Because that’s the direction the evolution has been heading ever since Maki Goro introduced himself into the equation. Another question: Was Godzilla going to break down completely into this cluster of smaller creatures, Destoroyah-like; a new race of hive-minded beings existing under a single will? We’ll probably never know for certain, but my theory is no, he was not. My belief is that he was shedding his excess matter into a new evolutionary form that would have existed independant from both himself and each other. Godzilla would have remianed as is, smaller, but whole. In essence, Godzilla was giving birth to these creatures. Firstly, after obtaining material from a fin blown off in battle, we are immediately shown an on-screen simulation which the scientists use to theorise his further mutations. This is identified as “Godzilla’s Aesexual Propogation Vs Single Organism Growth”. Essentially, this data tells us that Godzilla is more likely to breed than continue to evolve. None of the characters actually state this out loud, but Hideaki Anno is known for littering visual clues to the truth as well as having them spoken. Secondly, there is precedent in Anno’s earlier works for this kind of evolutionary imperative. In Neon Genesis Evangelion, finale movie End Of Evangelion reveals that humanity itself is the final ‘Angel’ (the entities that have typically acted as antagonist monsters for the series) and that were were all spawned from the second Angel, Lilith. One of it’s most iconic visuals is that of Lilith herself, now an enormous crucified torso, gradually regenerating with hundreds of timy human legs hanging from her waist. (If we were to continue to take earlier works as viable precedent, then the fact that Gendo Ikari fuses himself with the embryo of the first Angel, Adam, could be seen as evidence of the “Maki merges with Godzilla” theory as well.) I think the implication of that final form was that we would have been seing the genesis of a new dominant race to replace humanity.

The real truth is, there is no one right answer. This might be difficult for audiences new to Anno’s works to get behind, but he doesn’t want to be definitive in answering the mysteries he sets up. It gives them more power to treat them like there is an answer if you look hard enough, but in reality there are only interpretations to take away, and of those there are as many as there are viewers willing to think about them. This is what Anno does; pushing thirty years later and Evangelion is still an open book, and that’s how it will be with Shin Godzilla. So you could argue that everything I’ve written here has been one big waste of time, that nothing here is what I believe but only how I can percieve. I can’t argue against that, but the movie is enjoyable and the discussions about it can be fun. And isn’t that the point?

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A Treatment Could Possibly Be A Scientific Success Whilst Still Being Disappointing

Patients must realize that there might not be any normal pre-embryos in any specific treatment cycle. They will be prepared for IVF in the usual manner. Our board-certified physicians have the seasoned necessary to deliver the most innovative fertility treatments. Clinics will not permit couples to partake in PGD even if they are prepared to cover the services in the event the couple simply wishes to influence the gender of their kid. Besides that, an individual can also ask the clinic for providing the contact particulars of the prior candidates that are provided with successful outcomes of the surgical procedure. Fertility clinics across the USA offer PGS.

The more you know about the process, quicker is going to be the response of your body to the treatment and success may come even in the very first cycle. Screening processes are really stringent and in the majority of situations a couple is only going to be accepted if they have a genetic abnormality they are trying to avoid. Because the testing procedure takes several days, embryos may want to get frozen. Some feel it shouldn’t be an elective procedure employed for family balancing. Modern IVF procedures are incredibly safe. Gender selection is a technique which makes it possible for couples to raise the likelihood of delivering a child of a specific sex. You might have heard of pure gender selection techniques a couple can utilize to aid them have a child of the sex they want.

There’s a pure desire among parents to want a child of a specific sex. It is difficult to explain to somebody who feels no need to speak out, why you could be terrified of what could occur if you do. Medical reasons include things like reducing the probability of bearing a kid with sex-linked genetic disorders like hemophilia or Duchenne muscular dystrophy. Still, success isn’t always guaranteed. If you would like to find success with IVF then some tips together with the guidance of experts will be able to help you get that. Today, success starts with the caliber of the questions we ask of individuals.

For a great deal of couples the gender selection is a little price to cover the opportunity to provide birth to the prince or princess you’ve always been wishing for. The expense of gender selection abroad has been shown to be a cheap and legal alternate to numerous couples who can’t afford the price of IVF in their nation. Added benefits of Gender Determination When it has to do with checking the variety of advantages of Gender Determination India, an individual can locate quite a few the exact same. One have to look at the best interests of the kid.

The previous birth was three years back. It’s a fact that a woman gives birth to a youngster but the effort have to be made by both partners. In such situations, a child of a particular gender is desired without obvious medical indications. Another reason is they want their children to deal with their company later on. Another reason folks choose sex selection is they want their child to possess the rights to inherit their properties. After this kind of insemination, the odds of getting pregnant with a healthful child grow dramatically. Lots of people prefer male children instead of female.

At the close of the day if you’re able to afford to cover gender selection, especially when you presently have 4 children of exactly the same sex, why not, it’s harming no-one. People today wish to get a child of a specific sex for a lot of reasons, listed below. Parents should have the ability to select the sex of their children, whether its to boost the possibilities of them having a wholesome child or simply because they wish to. In that circumstance, the parents might want to avert the risk by having a girl instead. Some parents are selecting to do the testing when it isn’t medically necessary merely to pick out the gender. So parents of IVF embryos not only can pick an embryo totally free of genetic flaws, but in addition the gender they may prefer.

There are two main kinds of pre-implantation approaches which may be used for sex selection.Women are advised to time having sex meticulously close to ovulation http://www.gender-baby.com/about-us/locate-a-clinic/ to guarantee a boy. There isn’t any way of knowing how many ladies go people have a tendency to stay quiet about it. Obese women ought to be advised to get less weight than other ladies.

Couples ought to be strong, committed and supportive to make it through the approach. Following are a few of the main reasons couples and individuals opted to choose the sex of their kid. Some couples prefer to pick the gender of their offspring for a wide range of factors. Couples in many nations, therefore, don’t have any choice except to look for treatment abroad

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