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    Sex-selective abortion is the practice of terminating a pregnancy based upon the predicted sex of the infant. The selective abortion of female fetuses...
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  • Sex-selective abortion is the act of aborting a child due to its predicted sex. This practice gained popularity in the mid-1980s to early 1990s in South...
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    men, sex-selective abortions, infanticides, aging, gendercide, problems with birth registration and sex differences in life expectancy. Human sex ratios...
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  • boys to 100 girls. Some early research into the sex ratio imbalance pointed to sex-selective abortion practices in the wake of China's one-child policy...
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  • elective abortions are legal after 14 weeks. Although sex-selective abortions are illegal nationwide, they were previously commonplace, leading to a sex-ratio...
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  • Selective abortion may refer to: Sex-selective abortion When a genetic test is performed that detects an undesirable trait; see genetics and abortion...
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    one-child-policy have led to a high rate of sex-selective abortion in China. Therefore, mainland China has a highly masculine sex ratio. Amartya Sen, the Nobel Prize-winning...
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  • compulsory abortion or sex-selective abortion. In cultures where there is a preference for male children, some women have sex selective abortions, which have...
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    considerably skewed by factors such as the age of mother at birth and by sex-selective abortion and infanticide. Exposure to pesticides and other environmental...
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  • the opposite sex, has led to the continuation of India's strong preference for male children. Female infanticide and sex-selective abortion are adopted...
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