Sex Selection

Little China Girls: How History's Worst Famine Shifted the Sex Ratio

Rob Brooks | Posted 04.19.2012

Read More: Evolution, China, Infanticide, Behavior, Famine, Sex, Gender, Sex Selection, Sex Ratio, Chinese Famine, Natural Selection, Science News
Rob Brooks

People often ask me whether natural selection continues to operate on modern humans in industrialized societies. My answer is always an unambiguous "Yes!"

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Gender Selection And Abortion: Making An Ethical Decision

Rabbi David A. Teutsch | Posted 10.14.2011

Read More: Abortion, Judaism, Jewish Beliefs, Gender Selection, Judaism and Abortion, Sex Selection, Abortion Ethics, Jewish Ethics, Gender and Religion, Religion News
Rabbi David A. Teutsch

While Jewish ethics does not consider a fetus to have the same moral worth as a living human being, a fetus nonetheless does have real moral worth and ought not be interfered with unless the reasons to do so are morally substantial.

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Is Curbing Women's Rights the Path to Gender Equality?

Sujatha Jesudason | Posted 09.12.2011

Read More: Sex-Selection, Sex Selective Abortion, Mara Hvistendahl, Abortion Rights, Gender Pay Gap, Sexism, Unnatural Selection: Choosing Boys Over Girls and the Consequences of a World Full of Men, Politics News
Sujatha Jesudason

We can no longer afford to ignore the growing use of technology to select for boys and against girls. One hundred sixty million girls never born and a future of seven brides for seventy brothers is indeed cause for alarm.

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Americans Prefer Sons To Daughters

Posted 08.24.2011

Read More: Girls, Sex Selection, Americans Prefer Baby Boys, American Would Rather Have a Boy Than a Girl, Boys, Parenting, Babies, Americans Prefer Having Boys to Girls, Women News

What ever happened to parents-to-be saying, "We don't care whether it's a boy or a girl, as long as it's healthy?" According to a new Gallup poll ...

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When Abortion Is "Gendercide"

Madeline Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Women's Rights, Gender Ratios, Sex Selective Abortion, United Nations Human Rights Council, Petals in the Dust, Sex-Selection, Oklahoma Abortion Laws, India, Dr. Sabu George, Nyna Caputi, Infanticide, The Christian Science Monitor, H.B. 1595, International Violence Against Women Act, World News
Madeline Wheeler

Without enough women, some Indian girls from poor areas are being sold as wives to higher caste men. Often these girls service more than one male and are kept essentially as sex slaves.

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Regulating Abortion May Be OK But Not To Avoid Sex-Selection

Marianne Mollmann | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Medical Ethics, Abortion, Sex-Selection, Sex Selective Abortion, Sex-Selective-Abortion, Politics News
Marianne Mollmann

The solution to the prevalence of sex-selective abortion is to remove the motivation (emotional or real) behind the procedure by advancing women's human rights and their economic and social equality.

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Missing Girls ... Missing Women

Aruna Kashyap | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Abortion, Sex-Selection, India, Sex Selective Abortion, World News
Aruna Kashyap

The key to eliminating sex-selective abortion in India is not in the abortion procedure itself, but rather in the motivation for having it.

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