Sex Selective Abortion

Laura Bassett

Contentious Abortion Measure Fails In GOP-Controlled House

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 05.31.2012

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A Republican-sponsored bill that would have banned sex-selective abortions failed in the House of Representatives Thursday, the same day that anti-abo...

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House To Vote On Bill Banning Abortions Based On Gender

Posted 06.01.2012

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By JIM ABRAMS, THE ASSOCIATED PRESS WASHINGTON -- Legislation coming up for a House vote would make it a federal crime to carry out an abortion bas...

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Laura Bassett

'Susan B. Anthony And Frederick Douglass' Anti-Abortion Bill Angers Civil Rights Community

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.08.2011

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Minority and women's civil rights groups, including the NAACP, criticized GOP lawmakers on Tuesday for using Frederick Douglass and Susan B. Anthony -...

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

Sujatha Jesudason | Posted 09.12.2011

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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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Is China Poised for Implosion? What Would the Communist Manifesto Predict?

Howard Steven Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011

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Howard Steven Friedman

Deng Xiaoping probably would be concerned to see that Chinese population policies and practices as well as the engine of capitalism appears to be creating a Marxian nightmare of bourgeois and proletariat.

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Watering Your Neighbor's Garden: The Global War on Baby Girls

Anushay Hossain | Posted 05.25.2011

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Anushay Hossain

Increasing the status of women and girls around the world has never been more urgent. Despite sex-selective abortions being banned in both China and India in the late 1990's, the practice continues.

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When Abortion Is "Gendercide"

Madeline Wheeler | Posted 05.25.2011

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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

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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

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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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