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Selective sex selection of foetuses widens India’s gender gap Comments 0

Friday, May 27th, 2011

Aborting female foetuses in India means there are 7.1 million fewer girls than boys aged up to six. The gender-gap has widened by a million in the last 10 years. Selective sex selection Indian families where the first child has been a girl, more and more parents with access to prenatal ultrasound testing are sex-selecting Read more

• Promoting the value of the girl child
• Caste council vows to fight female feticide
• Catholics pledge to women in distress
• Economically booming India is failing its daughters
• 3000 female foetuses aborted in Taiwan
• Preference for boys further skews India's sex ratio (Reuters 2001)

Tags: Abortion, gender, Gender Equality, gender gap, India, Sex selection
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