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Gender choice: Is it playing God? Designer children

Don’t get Lizette Frielingsdorf wrong. She loved her three boys—Jordan, Justin and Jake. Yet somehow she felt incomplete, especially when watching her friends happily shop with their daughters or when recalling those special times when her own mother took her to the ballet.

“Boys are great, but I started to think I’d love to have a girl, too,” she said. “I just wanted those things you do with a daughter.”

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