Ban on Telling Fetus Sex Unconstitutional

I already knew that there is a ban or it is illegal for health professionals to tell expectant parents the sex of their unborn child even before I got pregnant. As a very excited pregnant woman, I still asked my doctor and the sonographer what the sex of my baby is when I was on my 6th month of pregnancy. I had used every trick I could think of and they still wouldn’t tell me. So we didn’t buy anything until after my son was born.

The Constitutional Court ruled Thursday that the law banning doctors from revealing the gender of fetuses was unconstitutional, but added that it will remain in effect till Dec. 31, 2009 when new legislation is enacted.

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When I was pregnant, everybody was telling me that I was going to have a girl. Some said it’s because of my smaller-than-average belly or because of the way I walked (duh?!). My sister-in-law gave us her daughter’s clothes months before I gave birth. And my mother-in-law thought that the name “Yu-ri” would fit our “daughter.”

When I gave birth, everyone was shocked and happy that we have a son. The day I was discharged from the hospital was the day we went shopping for boy stuff. And we didn’t have a name for our son until the middle of June, three weeks after he was born.