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In a new report, the Bioethics Council, a ministerial advisory committee, says individuals are in the best position to make decisions about sex selection.
The report - titled Who Gets Born? - concludes that the sex of embryos created outside the mother's body under programmes such as IVF (in vitro fertilisation) should be chosen by parents.
That would mean mothers and fathers would be able to gender-balance their families - something critics have attacked as "designer babies".
