Gender testing is legal in Hong Kong, with some clinics apparently turning a blind eye to the origins of the smuggled samples. In February, a 12-year-old girl headed to Hong Kong was caught at the Shenzhen border carrying 142 vials of blood samples from pregnant women in her backpack. Some mainlanders take the legal option of travelling directly to Hong Kong for gender testing. - 'Ethically unacceptable' -The trade raises questions over the willingness of Hong Kong labs to ignore their own rules. "Ethically this is completely unacceptable because this will only encourage more people to perform gender selection," he told AFP.

Source: Bangkok Post May 22, 2019 04:45 UTC