{"id":6194,"date":"2006-06-17T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2006-06-17T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/06\/17\/2006-06-17-us-sex-determination-kit-sparks-fresh-fears\/"},"modified":"2006-06-17T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2006-06-17T12:00:00","slug":"2006-06-17-us-sex-determination-kit-sparks-fresh-fears","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2006\/06\/17\/2006-06-17-us-sex-determination-kit-sparks-fresh-fears\/","title":{"rendered":"US Sex Determination Kit Sparks Fresh Fears"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"source\"><a HREF=\"http:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/articleshow\/1655667.cms\">timesofindia.indiatimes.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"summary\">CHANDIGARH, INDIA, June 17, 2006: For the Indian states which have been able to control sex-determination tests through ultrasound, a new US-patented gender testing kit &#8212; available over the Internet &#8212; which enables sex-determination as early as five weeks after conception will spell more troubles. The kit costs US$275 and involves sending a blood sample to a US laboratory and receiving results within 48 hours. &#8220;If the kit enters the Indian market, it can lead to mass abortions of the female foetus and further skew sex ratios,&#8221; says Dr. Kuldeep Singh, former president of Indian Medical Association, Punjab. &#8220;Under the Medical Termination of Pregnancy (MTP) Act, an abortion can take place till the 12th week and this kit assures detection in the fifth week itself,&#8221; says Dr. Singh, asking the Punjab health authorities to take immediate steps to ban the site from viewing in India. Claiming 99.5% accuracy, the company says that the kit&#8217;s technology has been in trial for 14 years. The technique traces the amount of active genetic fetal chromosomal DNA in the maternal blood to determine gender.<\/p>\n<p>Krishan Kumar, deputy commissioner, Nawanshahr, who is spearheading the campaign to curb the menace of ultra-sound machines that are widely used for sex-determination tests, says, &#8220;If such a kit exists, the very thought of it worries me. We have been unable to control sex-determination tests through ultra-sounds and the new kit will compound the problems. I also see Punjabis headed for the US to get the tests done as it has already been established that Indians are going abroad to get male embryo implanted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>timesofindia.indiatimes.com CHANDIGARH, INDIA, June 17, 2006: For the Indian states which have been able to control sex-determination tests through ultrasound,,&#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-6194","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194","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=6194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}