Hi Debbie,
I do read your stories and I must say you do write very well n on topic that people don't even want to talk about ... As if such things don't even exist in our society ... Well done .. Keep up the good work...
The is a technique called per implantation diagnosis
This basically means
, that when an embryo is formed by fertilising an egg with the sperm in the lab, at an eight cell of the embryo, one cell is taken out for diagnosis purposes that is it undergoes a DNA analysis for any defects in the embryo. This also tell you the gender of the baby...
This is mainly to screen out healthy embryos so that only the one without any genetic defects is implanted in the woman.
With age in both male n female the sperm n egg will have more genetic defects ( this a natural process) than in a young one...so this is a screening process. But there are no laws against that. This is like doing an amniocentesis or a chorionic villus sampling once the woman is pregnant due to some abnormalities detected on scan or blood or age...
Normally in IVF cases pretty implantation diagnosis is not performed...but in India I am sorry to say anything is possible