{"id":12264,"date":"2006-07-14T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-07-14T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/07\/14\/choosing-baby-s-sex-to-be-outlawed-in-uk\/"},"modified":"2006-07-14T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-07-14T12:00:00","slug":"choosing-baby-s-sex-to-be-outlawed-in-uk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/07\/14\/choosing-baby-s-sex-to-be-outlawed-in-uk\/","title":{"rendered":"Choosing Baby&#8217;s Sex to be Outlawed in UK"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/www.thisislondon.com\/news\/articles\/PA_NEWA30127651152700332A00?source=PA%20Feed\">www.thisislondon.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">LONDON, ENGLAND, July 12, 2006: Sex selection of babies for non-medical reasons is set to be outlawed in the UK under Government plans for a shake-up of embryology regulation. Health Minister Caroline Flint told MPs she was minded to introduce a &#8220;clear and specific ban&#8221; on the use of new techniques to choose one gender of baby. Allowing parents to pick sex for reasons such as &#8220;balancing&#8221; the make-up of their family could be the start of a &#8220;slippery slope&#8221; to designer babies, she warned. But the ban would not prevent British people going abroad where such practices were legal, she accepted.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>www.thisislondon.com LONDON, ENGLAND, July 12, 2006: Sex selection of babies for non-medical reasons is set to be outlawed in the,&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12264\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}