New Baby Gender Test Story aired: Wednesday, June 29, 2005
For more than two decades there have been several options for the impatient parent to determine a baby's gender: ultrasound, painlessly administered around four months into pregnancy; chorionic villus sampling, administered at 12 weeks; and the amnio, administered at about 18 weeks.
Now, there's a fourth option: a home test known as Baby Gender Mentor, as simple as a finger prick, that reveals a baby's gender only five weeks into pregnancy -- roughly the same time that a home pregnancy test will work.
Guests:
Dr. Charles Cantor, professor of biomedical engineering at the Boston University.
Arthur Caplan, bioethicist at the University of Pennsylvania.
