A couple in Australia have admitted they spent the equivalent of €33,000 to ensure their next baby would be a girl, not a boy.
 
Jayne Cornwill and her husband Jonathon travelled from their home in South Australia to California for the controversial “gender selection” treatment, which involves only transferring embryos of the desired sex into the uterus.
 
The couple already have three sons and Jayne says she experienced severe depression at the prospect of never having a girl.
 
“Ever since I was little, my only goal in life was to have a daughter, and as an adult that desire only grew stronger,” she told the Sydney Morning Herald.
 
 
Speaking about her second pregnancy, she said, “I couldn't hide my disappointment from my husband when the nurse said, ‘It's a boy’… unless you've experienced ‘gender disappointment’ you can't understand how crippling it can be.”
 
During her third pregnancy with her son Brodie, Jayne says she became so down that she “considered having an abortion.”
 
Although she did go through with the pregnancy, she and her husband immediately began researching gender selection options and remortgaged their house to help pay for the treatment.
 
Jayne described her elation at finally giving birth to a baby girl earlier this year. “When my daughter, Emmerson, was born in April and I held her in my arms, it was like the final piece of the puzzle fell into place.”
 
She is now calling for the treatment to be legalised in other countries. "It's not about playing God, it's about giving women reproductive freedom," she said.
 
What do you think of Jayne's choice to undergo the treatment?
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