A university professor in Lahore speaks out about the prevalence of sex-selective abortion in Pakistan. “The census has given us… [Read More]
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Sex Selective Abortion
China’s ‘Underground Railroad’ Smuggles Blood for Illicit Gender-Testing in Hong Kong (Radio Free Asia)
Post Date: 06/23/2017
Black market gender-selection? A complex network of companies, middlemen, and clinics in mainland China and Hong Kong is carrying on a… [Read More]
NHS Blood Test that Screens Babies for Genetic Traits Such as Height and Hair Colour Could Cause a Surge in Abortions, Experts Warn (Daily Mail)
Post Date: 05/25/2017
Non-Invasive Prenatal Testing (NIPT) during pregnancy, which screens for a variety of genetic traits in the child, is set to… [Read More]
Ban Early Pregnancy Blood Test to Curb Abortion of Baby Girls, Ethics Body Demands (Telegraph, 2017)
Post Date: 03/04/2017
The Nuffield Council on Bioethics in the UK has called for a ban on non-invasive prenatal testing (NIPT) for the… [Read More]
Global Women’s Health, Commodification, and the Abortion Debate
Post Date: 02/01/2017
In 2012, The Center for Bioethics & Human Dignity’s (CBHD) annual conference explored the theological roots of human dignity… [Read More]
Sex-Selective Abortions Will Make Armenia ‘A Society of Single Men’ (Newsweek)
Post Date: 01/24/2017
Per the United Nations Population Fund (UNPF), Armenia will be missing 100,000 potential mothers by 2060 due to sex-selective abortions…. [Read More]
Georgia: Data Glitch Distorts Abortion Picture (EurasiaNet)
Post Date: 01/24/2017
New evidence suggests that the country of Georgia’s sex-selective abortion problem, which has garnered international attention, is smaller than originally… [Read More]
100 Women: How South Korea Stopped its Parents Aborting Girls (BBC News)
Post Date: 01/24/2017
The BBC looks at the factors which contributed to South Korea moving from a country with alarmingly high sex-selective abortion… [Read More]
Son-Biased Sex Ratios in 2010 US Census and 2011–2013 US Natality Data (Almond, 2016)
Post Date: 01/04/2017
Almond, Douglas, and Yixin Sun, “Son-Biased Sex Ratios in 2010 US Census and 2011-2013 US Natality Data,” Social Science and… [Read More]
Sugar and Spice and … Sex-Selective Abortions? (Public Discourse)
Post Date: 01/09/2014
Daniel Kuebler argues that the U.S. should ban sex-selective abortions in order to avoid the “destabilizing gender imbalances” that have… [Read More]
