The discovery of U.S. doctors sparked outrage among bioeticharite, gay and lesbian groups who claim that doctors perform risky treatments of female fetuses in order to prevent the child developing tendency towards same sex while the child is in the womb of the mother.
Treatment currently affects only a dozen girls with a rare congenital condition that is called congenital adrenalna hyperplasia.
The hyperplasia causes depositing male hormones in females because of the children in the womb of the mother at the beginning is hard to find that half. Although their internal organs are developing normally, also the development and abnormal external genitalia and characteristics such as deep voice and excessive vlaknetost.
Dr. Maria New of Mount Sinai medical school with their colleagues to support hormonal treatments in the baby in the womb of the mother to prevent the development of abnormal genitalia because these treatments reject the need for surgery later in life stage.
This treatment does not pass without the side effects that could have a major impact on the sexual orientation of a person. Opponents accuse the other treatments. New skireni that has intentions to stop lesbianism after he noticed that people with congenital hyperplasia adrenalna in many cases would be lesbians and build some of the "male" careers.
Dr.Nju rejects these accusations and claims of any pregnant woman not copied the controversial pill to prevent the development of their unborn lejzbejstvotro the child.
'LA Times reported that DR. New research in the past noted that steroids deksametazon encourages the natural development of female characteristics in female children.
Dr. New godoina in 2008 conducted a survey which examined 143 women with congenital adrenalna hyperplasia, which are not spent on prenatal treatment. The survey showed that many women are heteroseksualna orientation, but that rate homosekusalnost and bisexuality is greater than the group spent treatment.
New by examining 685 pregnant women who have undergone treatment, found that their daughters have distinct feminine characteristics. Also research has shown that women with children whose mothers did not have undergone treatment increasingly behave like men that play in childhood as boys and later elected careers that are characteristic of boys.
New also is accused of recommendations of the strong steroid deksametazon without informing parents that he is in experimental stage. Its critics say that this steroid did not use the state of congenital hyperplasia adrenalna predizvikanata which is defective in enzymes of nadbubrezhni glands.
Many medical associations uptoreba produced guidelines for the hormone to be released in the September Edition Journal of Clinical Endocrinology and Metabolism.
Guidelines should be disclosed the experimental nature of treatment and warned it could cause a small weight in newborns and other defects, the Daily Mail.
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