Sex-selection in the West

Everyone knows that sex-selection is rampant in the places like China and India where ultrasound and legalized abortion mean that roughly 160 million women are "missing." What many people do not know, or refuse to acknowledge, is that the practice of aborting girls just because they are girls is growing in the West as well.A study done by Douglas Almond and Lena Edlund, of UC Berkeley that looked at U.S. 2000 Census data.  They found that among U.S.-born children of Chinese, Korean, and Asian Indian parents there is a male bias especially in third children.  They report, "If there was no previous son, sons outnumbered daughters by 50%."  And they concluded, "We interpret the found deviation in favor of sons to be evidence of sex selection, most likely at the prenatal stage."A study of 2 abortion clinics in the San Francisco Bay area that service a high South Asian immigrant population found shocking evidence of sex selection.  Forbes reported that not only did 89% of pregnant women who were carrying girls abort their child during the study period, but there was evidence of coercion, sometimes violent, by husbands and in-laws to do so.This is would be expected in the United States where sex selection is completely legal in most states. But in the UK, sex selective abortion is illegal. Surely, the law is enough of a deterrent.It does not seem so. The Independent looked at the UK's recent census data and found that in certain imm...
Source: Mary Meets Dolly - Category: Geneticists and Genetics Commentators Tags: Abortion Source Type: blogs