A new test can now determine a baby’s sex in utero as early as seven weeks into gestation.

Is determining a baby’s sex crucial?

Or does this simply leave opportunity for unnecessary consideration?

“What you have to consider is the ethics of this,” said Dr. Mary Rosser, an obstetrician and gynecologist at the Montefiore Medical Center in New York.

“If parents are using it to determine gender and then terminate the pregnancy based on that, that could be a problem,” she told Reuters Health. “Remember, gender is not a disease.”