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[–]MarkTwainiac 6 insightful - 1 fun6 insightful - 0 fun7 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

in parts of the world where DNA testing is available and affordable, the physician attending the birth has to do nothing in terms of "assigning" the sex.

Fetal sex screening by obstetric ultrasound has long been widely available and widely used even amongst people without much in the way of financial resources even in developing or poorer countries like India, China, Vietnam, Albania, Tunisia and others in order to facilitate sex selective abortions of female fetuses simply for being female. Ultrasound can tell fetal sex with nearly 100% accuracy at 70 days post fertilization, a few days earlier in the case of female fetuses. Which is well within the time frame for legal abortion everywhere abortion is legal.

In several countries nowadays, just the fact that a baby gets to be born indicates that it's very likely that testing in utero already showed him to be male.

https://www.newscientist.com/article/2199874-sex-selective-abortions-may-have-stopped-the-birth-of-23-million-girls/