Legal provisions on fetal gender identification In China, fetal gender identification has been explicitly prohibited. In 2003, my country promulgated Article 42 of the Family Planning Law, which stipulates that “it is prohibited to use technical means to select the gender of the fetus.” In addition, in the legal and regulatory system, fetal gender identification is also clearly included in the prohibited activities of the \”Measures for the Management of Human Cellular Genetic Resources\”. At the same time, the relevant behaviors were clearly violated the human rights of citizens, attacked the personality rights of citizens, and were suspected of undermining social ethical risks. Therefore, they were characterized as \”illegal\” and