A year ago the New Zealand Parliament voted in favour of radical reforms to the Abortion Legislation Act. The amendments were aimed at modernising the legislation, and moving abortion out from under the Crimes Act of 1961 and the Contraceptive, Sterilisation Act of 1977. One of the more fiercely debated points in the Bill related Read more
A Catholic doctor in Australia could face suspension for refusing an abortion referral for a couple who wanted to avoid having a girl. Dr Mark Hobart, 55, was asked by an Indian married couple to refer them to an abortion clinic after discovering at 19 weeks they were having a girl when they wanted a Read more
India Today reports eye-witness accounts of doctors in one city are so desperate to hide evidence that they are doing sex-selection abortions that they are feeding the remains of aborted girl babies to dogs. Sme physicians in the city of Beed, India are engaging in the practice, according to India Today, which spoke with Varsha Deshpande Read more
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