Written by Jonathan Higbee, | Wednesday, 30 June 2010
Tags: bio ethics, hormones, pregnancy, sexual orientation, maria new, florida, engineering Perhaps the most digusting, vile news we've heard in awhile comes from Florida, where endocrinologist Maria New is injecting pregnant women with hormones in the hopes of preventing their female babies from being born with "masculine tendencies."
From the Hastings Center Bioethics Forum:
“Gender-related behaviors, namely childhood play, peer association, career and leisure time preferences in adolescence and adulthood, maternalism, aggression, and sexual orientation become masculinized in 46,XX girls and women with 21OHD deficiency [CAH]. These abnormalities have been attributed to the effects of excessive prenatal androgen levels on the sexual differentiation of the brain and later on behavior.” Nimkarn and New continue: “We...
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