"Some medical ethicists object to IVF's application to disease diagnosis. "The category of conditions that count as a disease that you might screen for keeps getting bigger," says Dr. Bernadette Tobin, director of the Plunkett Centre for Ethics at Sydney's (Catholic) St. Vincent's Hospital." (Australian 15-16/05/99)

"Sex selection using artificial insemination or in-vitro fertilisation is banned in Victoria and in South Australia, artificial fertilisation can only be used for treatment of infertility. Both states provide exceptions to avoid the risk of transmission of a genetic defect." (West Australian 04/10/99)

"Who wouldn't want the best possible child you can have? If you could select an embryo that wasn't going to suffer an illness that runs in the family, wouldn't you?" (Australian 26/10/99)