1.   And somehow, two copies of the DSS gene can feminize an otherwise chromosomally male fetus.

2.   Also, male fetuses are less flexible than female fetuses, and thus have more deformational anomalies.

3.   Dr. Selwyn Oskowitz of the Boston In Vitro Fertilization Clinic, says more male fetuses die during pregnancy.

4.   For example, the report said, significantly more male fetuses are spontaneously aborted or stillborn.

5.   Half of the women without the rash were carrying male fetuses.

6.   If a pregnant woman is exposed to the drug it may cause abnormalities of the genitalia of her male fetus.

7.   In the male fetus, circulating testosterone can act as one of these detrimental influences by slowing growth and impairing neuronal function in the left hemisphere.

8.   Some otherwise healthy women have an X chromosome defect that can prove lethal to male fetuses.