[Love Always Ivy]

as someone who is a biomedical engineering major, this is a method to detect the sex of the baby, albiet not a flawless one.it works by elimination - detect the Y chromosome = boy, absence by default = girl. the fact that the undetection of a chromosome that is in very low percentage in the sample to begin with... thats not exactly the most definitive test now is it? the amount of fetal dna in the mother's bloodstream is so miniscule that you would have to PCR all the dna in the sample to amplify the amount of fetal DNA to be detected. there is significant error inherent in this method. PCR is also not the cheapest process in the world. error rates definetly would decline as the pregnancy goes on, since there would be more of the fetal DNA available to test.

also, the article mentions that people would have an abortion because of the sex of the baby. i say you are awful people to kill your baby because its a girl and not a boy, and vice versa. you shouldnt be allowed to reproduce.
that just really made me mad.