Gender based selection in the US now favors girls

[4th law of robotics]

How To Buy a Daughter
Choosing the sex of your baby has become a multimillion-dollar industry.

Megan Simpson always expected that she would be a mother to a daughter.
She had grown up in a family of four sisters. She liked sewing, baking, and doing hair and makeup. She hoped one day to share these interests with a little girl whom she could dress in pink.
Simpson, a labor and delivery nurse at a hospital north of Toronto, was surprised when her first child, born in 2002, was a boy. That’s okay, she thought. The next one will be a girl.
Except it wasn’t. Two years later, she gave birth to another boy.
Desperate for a baby girl, Simpson and her husband drove four hours to a fertility clinic in Michigan. Gender selection is illegal in Canada, which is why the couple turned to the United States. They paid $800 for a procedure that sorts sperm based on the assumption that sperm carrying a Y chromosome swim faster in a protein solution than sperm with an X chromosome do.
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Simpson was inseminated with the slower sperm that same day. Fifteen weeks later, she asked a colleague at the hospital to sneak in an after-hours ultrasound. The results felt like a brick landing on her stomach: another boy.
“I lay in bed and cried for weeks,” said Simpson, now 36, whose name has been changed to protect her privacy. She took a job in the operating room so she would no longer have to work with women who were giving birth to girls.

http://www.slate.com/articles/health_and_science/medical_examiner/2012/09/sex_selection_in_babies_through_pgd_americans_are_paying_to_have_daughters_rather_than_sons_.single.html

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It's interesting that this practice has caught on here when it is usually associated with China or India. And that now it favors girls.

Personally I find the motivation for gender based selection to be unnerving but I am unwilling to put any limits on a person's reproductive choices.

/No agenda here. I just thought this was interesting, related to men's issues in some way, and thought people might enjoy reading the article.

//I really hope the boy referenced in this article never finds out that by "choosing" to be male he sent his mom in to a depression lasting many weeks. That can't be good for his self-esteem.