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Acu-Gen has been marketing a Baby Gender Mentor product where you are supposedly able to identify the gender of your baby as early as five weeks. A class action lawsuit was recently filed against the company because the testing appears to be inaccurate as many women have had ultrasounds confirming their baby to be the opposite sex of that identified by the Baby Gender Mentor test. Over 100 women have complained of test inaccuracies.

Baby Gender Mentor: A Suit Is Born

Medgadget.com - 3/23/2006 2:36 PM

In a class action lawsuit filed in the US district court in Boston on behalf of 16 women the makers of the Baby Gender Mentor are accused of breaking their promise. Barry Gainey, the women's lawyer, said he knew of about 100 women whom the kit had failed, including some from Britain who bought it online.
 
The suit seeks to bar Acu-Gen Biolab from falsely marketing its test and to compel the firm to honour its money-back guarantee. The Baby Gender Mentor's website promises "unsurpassed accuracy" in predicting the sex of a foetus from three drops of a pregnant woman's blood, allowing parents to form a "natural nexus with your baby early on".
 
The test, which costs $275 (£156), claims to detect foetal chromosomes in the maternal blood stream. Women do it at home and send it to Massachusetts for processing. They are promised double their money back on production of a birth certificate if the result is wrong.
 
But within weeks of taking the test dozens of pregnant women reported having ultrasound scans showing they were having babies of the op
 
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