June 19, 2013

Edition: U.S.

Sex Selective Abortion

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Civil Rights Groups Sue Arizona Over 'Wolf In Sheep's Clothing' Abortion Law

AP | BOB CHRISTIE | Posted 05.29.2013 | Politics

PHOENIX -- Civil rights groups on Wednesday sued Arizona to block a 2011 law banning abortions based on the race or sex of the child that makes it a f...

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Black Women Lawmakers Walk Out On Race-Selective Abortion Debate

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 04.19.2013 | Politics

A debate in Florida's House of Representatives over a Republican-sponsored ban on race- and sex-selective abortions became extremely heated Thursday, ...

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Sneak Attack' Abortion Ban Moves Through House Committee

Posted 04.04.2013 | Miami

Florida lawmakers are one step closer to banning sex- and race-selective abortions, a measure some considered a "sneak attack on a woman's right to ch...

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Contentious Abortion Measure Fails In GOP-Controlled House

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 07.31.2012 | Politics

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 07.31.2012 | Politics

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

HuffingtonPost.com | Laura Bassett | Posted 12.08.2011 | Politics

Read More: Black Abortion, African American Abortion, Video, Sex Selective Abortion, Susan B. Anthony, Trent-Franks-Abortion, Frederick Douglass, Politics News

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 | Politics

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 | Business

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 | World

Read More: Female Infanticide, India, Sex Selective Abortion, China Baby Girls, China, World News

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 | World

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 | Politics

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

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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