1.0 link 42988 <![CDATA[The Secret of China's "Missing" Girls]]> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jeanine-plant/the-secret-of-chinas-miss_b_42988.html Last week, The Washington Times featured a disturbing series of articles on the widening disparity between the sexes in India. Due to the rising use of ultrasounds in the country, women are aborting girls at a much higher rate than boys. Julia Duin reports:

Female infanticide--whereby tiny girls were either poisoned, buried alive or strangled--has existed for thousands of years in India. But its boy-to-girl ratio didn't begin to widen precipitously until the advent of the ultrasound, or sonogram,...
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