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Dozens of British women a year are flying to the United States and paying thousands of pounds to select the sex of their baby, it has emerged.
據(jù)透露，英國(guó)每年都有數(shù)十名女性飛往美國(guó)就醫(yī)，花費(fèi)數(shù)千英鎊來(lái)選擇胎兒的性別。
As gender selection is banned in the UK, couples desperate to balance their family by adding a boy or girl are flying to New York or Los Angeles.
因?yàn)橛?guó)國(guó)內(nèi)禁止性別選擇，那些迫切想添個(gè)男孩或女孩、平衡家中性別比例的英國(guó)夫婦現(xiàn)在開(kāi)始飛往紐約或洛杉磯就醫(yī)。
Earlier this year The Telegraph discovered that doctors were granting women illegal abortions based on the sex of their children. It led to Andrew Lansley, the Health Secretary, launching an inquiry.
今年早些時(shí)候英國(guó)電訊報(bào)發(fā)現(xiàn)醫(yī)生們?cè)试S女性根據(jù)胎兒性別非法墮胎。這促使衛(wèi)生部長(zhǎng)安德魯•蘭斯利對(duì)此事進(jìn)行調(diào)查。
Doctors at fertility clinics check the women's fertilised eggs and then implant an embryo into them - after checking that the child will have the required gender.
生殖診所的醫(yī)生們先檢查女性的受精卵，在確定女性要求的小孩性別后，便將胚胎移植進(jìn)去。
Patients from other parts of Europe are also jetting to the States to ensure the sex of their baby.
來(lái)自歐洲其他國(guó)家的病人也飛往美國(guó)就醫(yī)，確保嬰兒的性別是自己想要的。
One doctor offering the service, British-trained Dr Jeffrey Steinberg, says he currently helps around 40 British couples a year. Altogether he has assisted 400 British women since he began offering the service a few years ago.
提供此項(xiàng)服務(wù)的一名醫(yī)生、在英國(guó)接受從業(yè)培訓(xùn)的杰弗里•斯泰伯格醫(yī)生說(shuō)，他現(xiàn)在每年幫助約40對(duì)英國(guó)夫婦達(dá)成所愿。自從幾年前他開(kāi)始提供這項(xiàng)服務(wù)以來(lái)，他一共幫助過(guò)400名英國(guó)女性。
Dr Steinberg, whose main clinic is in New York: "New York is only a seven or eight-hour flight from most of Europe, so it works very well for those from Britain, France, Germany, Spain and the Middle East."
診所總部在紐約的斯泰伯格醫(yī)生說(shuō)：“從歐洲大多數(shù)國(guó)家坐飛機(jī)到紐約，只有七八個(gè)小時(shí)的行程，所以對(duì)于那些來(lái)自英國(guó)、法國(guó)、德國(guó)、西班牙和中東國(guó)家的人非常合適。”
Dr Steinberg offers a technique called pre-implantation genetic diagnosis (PGD).
斯泰伯格醫(yī)生提供一種名叫“胚胎植入前遺傳學(xué)診斷”（PGD）的技術(shù)。
A welcome message on his website says: "If you want to be certain your next child will be the gender you are hoping for, no other method comes close to the reliability of PGD.
他網(wǎng)站上的歡迎辭寫(xiě)道：“如果你想確保你的下一個(gè)孩子是你期盼的性別，再?zèng)]有比PGD更可靠的方法了。
"While traditional sperm-screening techniques have a success rate of 60 to 70 percent, only PGD offers virtually 100 percent accuracy."
“傳統(tǒng)的精子篩檢技術(shù)成功率為60%到70%，但只有PGD能提供近乎100%的高準(zhǔn)確度成功率。”
The website adds: "Unlike many programmes offering sex selection only to very limited couples with known genetic disorders in the family, we make sex selection available to all patients.
網(wǎng)站上還說(shuō)：“我們不像許多項(xiàng)目那樣，只對(duì)有家族遺傳病史的極少數(shù)夫婦提供性別選擇服務(wù)，我們讓所有病人都有機(jī)會(huì)選擇胎兒性別。
"Parents have come to us from nearly every nation on the planet - we have assisted patients from 147 different nations - seeking to balance their families or assure themselves that a pregnancy will result in only the gender outcome they desire."
“幾乎世界上的每個(gè)國(guó)家都有前來(lái)就醫(yī)的父母——我們幫助過(guò)來(lái)自147個(gè)不同國(guó)家的病人——他們?cè)噲D平衡家庭成員性別，或確保一次懷孕就能生出他們想要的性別的小孩。”
Gender selection is banned in Britain under the 1990 Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act. British law only allows gender testing where there is a family history of serious physical or mental medical conditions which are gender related.
依據(jù)1990年《人類受精與胚胎法案》，英國(guó)禁止性別選擇。英國(guó)法律只允許那些有嚴(yán)重的家族遺傳生理或精神病史，而且遺傳病和性別相關(guān)的人進(jìn)行性別鑒定。
