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Prenatal Pill May Reduce Lesbianism

Ambiguous genitalia treatment raises alarms

By Mary Papenfuss, Newser Staff

Posted Aug 16, 2010 3:18 AM CDT | Updated Aug 16, 2010 7:51 AM CDT

(Newser) – A prenatal pill designed to prevent ambiguous genitalia in newborns may end up reducing lesbianism, triggering complaints from critics that the treatment is nothing more than medical engineering to manipulate sexual orientation. A few dozen pregnancies each year in the US result in babies with... Read full story »

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