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China’s embrace of embryo selection raises thorny questions

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Fertility centres are making a massive push to increase preimplantation genetic diagnosis in a bid to eradicate certain diseases.

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China’s move to a two-child policy has been a boon for fertility clinics.

Getting time with Qiao Jie is not easy. At 7:30 a.m., the line coming out of the fertility centre that she runs blocks the doorway and extends some 80 metres down the street. Inside, about 50 physicians on her team are discussing recent findings, but Qiao, a fertility specialist and president of Peking University Third Hospital in Beijing, is still in an early-morning consult.

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