Can artificial insemination select gender?

Although people's minds are becoming more and more open and the idea of ​​male superiority and female inferiority has changed to a certain extent, in fact, there are still many people in life who favor boys over girls. Therefore, during the pregnancy process, many people hope to know the gender of the child through some methods. So, if conception is achieved through artificial insemination, is it possible to choose the gender of the child?

No, artificial insemination only helps sperm to enter the ovaries smoothly. As for the division of gender, it depends on the combination of sperm and egg. Generally, the rate of artificial insemination for males is higher because the time for sperm to enter the ovaries is shortened. In addition, the sperm must be healthy and energetic, so that the probability will be higher.

Artificial insemination is mainly used for infertility caused by male factors, such as severe hypospadias, retrograde ejaculation, erectile dysfunction, azoospermia, oligospermia, asthenospermia, and semen liquefaction disorder. Artificial insemination can also be used for some female-related infertility, such as vaginismus, small cervix, abnormal cervical mucus, poor post-coital test, etc.

In addition, there are some special cases, such as infertility due to immunological reasons, where both husband and wife are heterozygous for the same autosomal recessive genetic disease or the male has an autosomal dominant genetic disease, artificial insemination can also be used to achieve pregnancy and avoid the birth of unhealthy offspring.

I believe that through the above introduction everyone should have answers to the questions in their minds. In fact, if artificial insemination can select the gender of the child, then even people without any physical problems can choose to use this method to decide whether their unborn child is a boy or a girl, so that kind of idea is absurd.