Choose your baby’s sex for $199 plus postage and handling
Kits for choosing your baby’s sex are proliferating on the internet even though conventional doctors deride them as snake oil. One home-use product is GenSelect, sold by a South Carolina urologist for US$199 plus postage and handling. Touted as being 96% effective, it includes a thermometer to help predict ovulation, special douches and gender-specific mineral and herbal pills.
A dearer version is being marketed by Dr Panayiotis Zavos, the Kentucky scientist who has become notorious for trying to clone babies. For US$975, his customers can send a sperm sample in a special box which will be processed in his laboratory and returned with instructions for artificial insemination. He claims to have a success rate of 80% for boys and 78% for girls.
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