Blood smuggling to Hong Kong from mainland China, where sex testing is forbidden, has increased sharply over the past three years. An online agent offering sex tests to pregnant women in China encourages her customers to hide their blood sample in a plush animal. Each one was attached to an application form for sex testing, according to local media reports. Chinese women are choosing to have children NIPT isespecially popular in China, even though it can't be used for sex testing. In the future, this technology may also be used to predict which pregnant women will develop pre-eclampsia, or have a premature baby, he added.

Source: CNN October 14, 2019 00:11 UTC