China makes sex-selective abortions a crime.China has outlawed the selective abortion Abortion, Selective Definition Selective abortion, also known as selective reduction, refers to choosing to abort a fetus, typically in a multi-fetal pregnancy, to decrease the health risks to the mother in carrying and giving birth to more than one or of female fetuses to try to correct the imbalance in the ratio of boys to girls, which has grown since the one-child policy The Planned Birth policy (Simplified Chinese: 计划生育; Pinyin: jìhuà shēngyù) is the birth control policy of the government of the People's Republic of China (PRC). was introduced. Ultrasound ultrasound or sonography, in medicine, technique that uses sound waves to study and treat hard-to-reach body areas. In scanning with ultrasound, high-frequency sound waves are transmitted to the area of interest and the returning echoes recorded has made it easier to know a baby's sex in advance, thus increasing the opportunities for aborting girls. Sex-selective abortion is already banned but experts say that criminalising the procedure would be a more effective deterrent, although as yet there are no details on what the possible punishments might be. Figures show that 119 boys are currently bore for every 100 girls in China. Despite a desire to curb the sex imbalance and a relaxation in recent years that allows rural families to have two children if the first is a girl, China has shown no signs of abandoning the one-child policy. (1) (1.) China to make sex-selective abortions a crime. 7 January 2005 At: <www.chinaembassy.se/eng/xwdt/t178791.htm>. |
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