Eugenics News
Delay revealing gender of fetus to curb sex selection: experts
2010-04-11
NATIONAL POST
Two Canadian medical experts are calling for new guidelines that would bar doctors from telling parents the sex of their fetus until late in a pregnancy, calling it a subtle way to curb the practice of sex selection.
100 million 'missing' girls
2010-03-14
BOSTON.COM
IN INDIA each year, it is estimated that as many as a million baby girls are aborted by parents determined not to raise a daughter. Those unborn girls are the victims of a fierce cultural preference for boys — and of modern imaging technology that makes it easy to learn the sex of a baby in the womb. Ultrasound scans started becoming widely available in India in the 1980s; since then, an estimated 10 million female babies have been destroyed during pregnancy.
Gendercide
2010-03-08
IVILLAGE
Killed, aborted or neglected, at least 100m girls have disappeared—and the number is rising.
Blood test tells gender of fetus early as 5 week
2010-01-28
MSNBC.COM
Parents usually have to wait until nearly the end of the first trimester of pregnancy, or even into the second, to find out whether they're expecting a boy or a girl. But a new technique done with a simple blood draw from the expectant mother can reveal the gender of a developing fetus as early as five weeks into a pregnancy.
China faces growing gender imbalance
2010-01-11
BBC
The gender imbalance among newborns is the most serious demographic problem for the country's population of 1.3 billion, says the academy.
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