2007 Ethics Committee Opinion, Number 360, that sex selection is inappropriate because it ultimately supports sexist practices . The American Society of Reproductive Medicine ( ASRM ) published a 2004 Ethics Committee Opinion, noting that central to the controversy of sex selection in the use of assisted reproductive technology ( ART ) is the potential for inherent gender discrimination , … the risk of psychological harm to sex-selected offspring (i.e., by placing on them expectations that are too high) , … and reinforcement of gender bias in society as a whole . Sex selection in ART remains vulnerable to the judgment that no matter what its basis, [the method] identifies gender as a reason to value one person over another, and it supports socially constructed stereotypes of what gender means . In doing so, it not only reinforces possibilities of unfair discrimination, but may trivialize human reproduction by making it depend on the selection of nonessential features of offspring . The ASRM ethics opinion continues, ongoing problems with the status of women in the United States make it necessary to take account of concerns for the impact of sex-selection on goals of gender equality . The American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists, an organization with hundreds of members—many of whom are former abortionists—makes the following declaration: Sex selection abortions are more graphic examples of the damage that abortion inflicts on women. In addition to increasing premature labor in subsequent pregnancies, increasing suicide and major depression, and increasing the risk of breast cancer in teens who abort their first pregnancy and delay childbearing, sex selection abortions are often targeted at fetuses simply because the fetus is female. As physicians who care for both the mother and her unborn child, the American Association of Pro-Life Obstetricians and Gynecologists vigorously opposes aborting fetuses because of their gender. . The President’s Council on Bioethics published a Working Paper