NetNews Usenet Archive 1992 #27/NN_1992_27.iso/spool/soc/men/19638

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From: [e-mail] (David Canzi)
Subject: Spot the Absurdity
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Organization: University of Waterloo
Date: Fri, 20 Nov 1992 06:28:11 GMT
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(Article from Kitchener-Waterloo Record, Sep 4, 1992)

    Women's groups plan protests at sex-choice clinic

Vancouver(CP)-British Columbia women's groups say they will stage
protests if a Toronto doctor opens a sex-selection clinic in
Vancouver.
     Amjad Alvi said in an interview Thursday he'll open a Vancouver
office within a month where parents can choose the sex of their
children for $500.
     But feminists say they'll fight him every step of the way because
of the tendency to select males.
     "We will demonstrate when this clinic opens," said Fatima Jaffer
of the Vancouver Status of Women.
     Alvi, 29, a Canadian-born doctor, said he uses a United States
technique to separate male- and female-producing sperm and artificially
inseminates the mother.  He claims a success rate of up to 80 per cent
in determining sex.
     "Basically he's marketing to the prejudice that already exists in
our society against women," said Sunera Thobani of Vancouver, head of
the reproductive technologies committee of the National Action
Committee for the Status of Women.
     "The provision of this kind of technology is really disgusting."
     Thobani called on the federal and provincial governments to ban
the technology, which she said discriminates against females before
they're even born.
--
David Canzi