Tuesday, April 21, 2009

Chinese policies at root of gender imbalance

Charlie Butts - OneNewsNow
China now has 32 million more males than females. There are reasons for the gender disparity. One of the reasons, according to Steven Mosher of the Population Research Institute (PRI), is due to sex-selection abortion.

"[T]he parents will go in at 18-weeks gestation and have an ultrasound done -- and if the ultrasound reveals that they're carrying a little boy, they'll continue the pregnancy," Mosher remarks. "If it reveals they're carrying a little girl, they'll schedule an abortion."

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Business/Default.aspx?id=493640

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