Shortage of girls forces China to criminalise selective abortion

Shortage of girls forces China to criminalise selective abortion

By Simon Parry in Hong Kong

(Filed: 09/01/2005)

The Chinese government is to make the selective abortion of female foetuses a criminal offence and will ban parents from obtaining ultrasound scans to discover their unborn baby’s sex, in an attempt to tackle an unwanted side-effect of its ‘one-child’ policy.

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