Sex selective abortion and infanticide

Sex selective abortion and infanticide - Factbites
Where results make sense
About us | Why use us? | Reviews | PR | Contact us

Topic: Sex selective abortion and infanticide

Note: these results are not from the primary (high quality) database.

In the News (Tue 2 Dec 08)

Damian Green

Sumner Redstone

Crimson Tide

Tommy Tuberville

Bill Clinton

Wayne Rooney

Vilasrao Deshmukh

Wake Forest

Grand Slam

Oklahoma State

	Sex-selective abortion and infanticide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Gender-selective abortion and infanticide may make it more difficult for the larger-population gender of that generation to seek heterosexual romantic relationships.
		Sex selective infanticide is the practice of selective infanticide against infants of an undesired sex, again.
		Sex-selective abortion was rare before the late 20th century because of the difficulty of determining the sex of the fetus before birth, but ultrasound has made it easy.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Sex-selective_abortion_and_infanticide (1665 words)

	Abortion - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Opponents of abortion consider the embryo or fetus to be fully human and abortion to be murder, whereas proponents of abortion consider abortion to be a basic human right for women.
		Early-term surgical abortion is a simple procedure, and when performed by competent doctors (and in some states, nurse practitioners, nurse midwives and physician assistants) in first-world nations (before the 16th week), is safer than carrying the pregnancy to term.
		Abortion in the 19th century continued, despite bans in both the United Kingdom and the United States, as the disguised, but nonetheless open, advertisement of services in the Victorian era suggests.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Abortion (5910 words)

	Youth Advocate Program International
		If you are interested in helping to stop female infanticide, sex-selective abortion, female genital cutting, or honor killing, you can start by embracing an attitude of sensitivity to the specific issues girls face and disseminating ideas of gender equality to people you interact with – colleagues, students, children, lawmakers, and friends.
		Selective abortion – also called gender-selective abortion, sex-selective abortion, or female feticide – is the abortion of a fetus because it is female.
		Some women resort to female infanticide and feticide in order to protect their daughters from a life of objectification and subjugation in a society dominated by men, where there is a prevalent anti-girl attitude.
	www.yapi.org /girlchild (2280 words)

	Reference.com/Encyclopedia/Infanticide
		Joseph Fletcher, founder of situational ethics and a euthanasia proponent, proposed that infanticide be permitted in cases of severe birth defects.
		One frequent method of infanticide in antiquity was simply to abandon the infant, leaving it to death by exposure.
		Infanticide is the practice of intentionally causing the death of an infant.
	www.reference.com /browse/wiki/Infanticide (1337 words)

	Female Demographic Disadvantage in India 1981-1991
		Sex selective abortion is shown by the occurrence of abnormally masculine SRB’s (those greater than or equal to 107 males per 100 females, since normal SRB’s are 104-106 males per 100 females).
		Most women who took the test were more interested in the sex of the child than in possible genetic anomalies, and those who already had two or more daughters and who learnt that their expected child was female, had an abortion.
		Infanticide is carried out by unscrupulous medical practitioners, and by ‘dais’ (traditional birth attendants), who are coerced by the male kin of the woman giving birth, over-riding the protests of the women in the family.
	www.hsph.harvard.edu /organizations/healthnet/gender/docs/sudha.html (3210 words)

	Gendercide Watch: Female Infanticide
		A spate of sex-selective abortions followed." (Karlekar, "The girl child in India.") Karlekar points out that "those women who undergo sex determination tests and abort on knowing that the foetus is female are actively taking a decision against equality and the right to life for girls.
		The authors contended that "sex-differential underreporting of births and induced abortion after prenatal sex determination together explain almost all of the increase in the reported sex ratio at birth during the late 1980s," and thus "the omission...
		In all cases, specifically female infanticide reflects the low status accorded to women in most parts of the world; it is arguably the most brutal and destructive manifestation of the anti-female bias that pervades "patriarchal" societies.
	www.gendercide.org /case_infanticide.html (3217 words)

	Ban Sex-Selective Abortions
		A public debate over sex-selective abortion will produce much-needed dialogue and reach the majority of Americans who feel that abortion is wrong but should not be outlawed in all cases.
		Women are victimized in many ways because of our societal, cultural and legal treatment of abortion, but most notably in the case of sex-selective abortion.
		Sex-selective abortions should be outlawed in the United States of America by vote of Congress.
	www.dartmouth.edu /~dcl/essays/sex-select.html (562 words)

	Peacekeeper
		That's because at least 60 million girls who would otherwise be expected to be alive are "missing" from various populations, mostly in Asia, due to sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, neglect and inferior access to food and medicine.
		Female infanticide is the intentional killing of baby girls due to the preference for male babies and the low status accorded to women in many countries, most notably China and India, the two most populous countries on earth.
		As with female genital mutilation and "honor" killings, the religion of Islam is often scapegoated as an ideological source of justification for female infanticide.
	www.iamapeacekeeper.com /advocacy/2.7infanticide.html (611 words)

	World Factbook - Sex ratio - Country Listing
		For instance, high sex ratios at birth in some Asian countries are now attributed to sex-selective abortion and infanticide due to a strong preference for sons.
		Sex ratio at birth has recently emerged as an indicator of certain kinds of sex discrimination in some countries.
		This entry includes the number of males for each female in five age groups - at birth, under 15 years, 15-64 years, 65 years and over, and for the total population.
	www.lexas.us /worldfactbook/data/people/sex_ratio.asp (108 words)

	UNFPA: News
		The booklet, Missing: Mapping the Adverse Child Sex Ratio in India, was compiled by the Office of India’s Registrar-General and Census Commissioner, the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare, and UNFPA.
		Minister for Health and Family Welfare, Government of India, Sushma Swaraj, launching a booklet, 'Missing: Mapping the Adverse Child Sex Ratio in India', along with UNFPA India Rep., Francois Farah.
		According to the booklet, "one of the significant contributors to the adverse child sex ratio in India is the practice of elimination of female foetuses".
	www.unfpa.org /news/news.cfm?ID=388 (644 words)

	Son Preference in Asia--Report of a Symposium
		While focusing on the problem of sex selective abortion of female fetuses, continue to attack pervasive discrimination against girls that leads to their untimely deaths.
		In his synopsis, Gu Baochang asserted that an abnormal sex ratio at birth results from the interplay of four factors: a cultural setting of strong son preference, low level of socioeconomic development, rapid fertility decline, and a family planning program tightly focused on reducing the number of children per woman.
		The remainder would have to be explained by selective undercounting of girls, female infanticide, or selective neglect of girls.
	www.census.gov /ipc/www/ebspr96a.html (3137 words)

	News, 26 March 2003
		A regulation issued jointly by the State Commission for Population and Family Planning, the Ministry of Health and the State Food and Drug Administration prohibits the use of ultrasound scans to determine an unborn child's sex and bans doctors who carry our routine tests from divulging an unborn child's sex to the parents.
		While broad guidelines prohibiting sex selection already exist in China, the new regulation is thought to be the first attempt to ban the practice by law.
		In 2001/02, 43% of all women who used the morning-after pill obtained it from their own general practitioner or practice nurse, while 31% obtained it from a family planning clinic and 20% from a pharmacy.
	www.spuc.org.uk /news/archive/2003/march/26 (537 words)

	Pro-Life With Christ: Pray for justice for the unborn babies.
		In a recent UNFPA report the shocking practice of selective abortion and infanticide in India were revealed.
		we selectively abort our children, and people come from all around the world to abort their unwanted sex baby.
		Today, throughout India, parents are increasingly forgoing outright infanticide in favour of cheap and widely available sex-selection technologies that enable practitioners first to identify female foetuses in utero, and then to abort them.
	pro.lifewithchrist.org /permalink/16783 (6650 words)

	Chivalry is dead
		Due to sex-selective abortion, female infanticide and inferior access to food and medicine, there are 60 million fewer women in the world today than would be expected from demographic trends.
		HIV infection for many women comes from a regular partner and is heightened by an unequal relationship that makes it difficult, if not impossible, to negotiate safe sex;
		The bulk of the discrepancy is found in South Asia, North Africa, the Middle East and China.
	www.scpronet.com /point/0006/p17.html (336 words)

	Transformation: November 2004
		Ninety-three million women and girls are “missing” from the world population because of sex-selective abortion, female infanticide, malnutrition, abuse and neglect of girl children.
		Boys are conscripted as soldiers, trafficked in the sex trade and 40 million boys worldwide are without access to basic education.
		This is a pandemic and there are two reasons for it: men have unsafe sex with multiple partners, and women lack the power to negotiate if or how sex takes place.
	liaonet.typepad.com /transformation/2004/11 (2391 words)

	Global Reproductive Health Forum: Research Library: Abortion: Gender, Politics and Rights
		Female Demographic Disadvantage in India 1981-1991: Sex Selective Abortion, Female Infanticide and Excess Female Child Mortality
		The Social Context of Sex Selection and the Politics of Abortion in India
		Global Reproductive Health Forum: Research Library: Abortion: Gender, Politics and Rights
	www.hsph.harvard.edu /Organizations/healthnet/abor/topic04.html (123 words)

	Letters csmonitor.com
		Regarding the Feb. 9 article "For India's daughters, a dark birth day": What is so mind-boggling about sex-selective abortion and infanticide is that women so devalue their own sex as to destroy their own kind.
		On a practical level, there is a way to fight this cultural and moral scourge.
	www.csmonitor.com /2005/0214/p08s01-cole.htm (623 words)

	Report of the Committee on the Elimination
		The Government should enforce laws against sex-selective abortion, female infanticide and abandonment of children and remove all legal disabilities from "out-of-plan" and unregistered children.
		The Committee recommends that statistics be disaggregated by sex, in a systematic manner, and included in the next periodic report and that steps be taken to guarantee greater involvement of women in decision-making.
		The Committee commends, in particular, the Sex Discrimination Ordinance of 1995 and the establishment thereunder of the Equal Opportunities Commission as an independent statutory body and with adequate resources, responsible for addressing complaints on discrimination and promoting gender equality through public education and other means.
	www.hri.ca /fortherecord1999/documentation/genassembly/a-54-38c.htm (6923 words)

	ipedia.com: Sexist parenting Article
		Sexist parenting (usually gender-selective abortion, and sometimes gender-selective infanticide if the fetal gender revelation is outlawed) is the preferring one gender of a child over the other, especially preference of sons over daughters.
		This article should be merged with sex-selective abortion, sex-selective infanticide.
		Gender-selective abortion may make it more difficult for a generation to seek heterosexual romantic relationships.
	www.ipedia.com /sexist_parenting.html (600 words)

	BCSIA - Publication - Bare Branches: The Security Implications of Asia's Surplus Male Population
		Through offspring sex selection (often in the form of sex-selective abortion and female infanticide), these countries are acquiring a disproportionate number of low-status young adult males, called "bare branches" by the Chinese.
		Hudson and den Boer suggest that the sex ratios of many Asian countries, particularly China and India — which represent almost 40 percent of the world's population — are being skewed in favor of males on a scale that may be unprecedented in human history.
		The prospects for peace and democracy are dimmed by the growth of bare branches in China and India, and, they maintain, the sex ratios of these countries will have global implications in the twenty-first century.
	bcsia.ksg.harvard.edu /publication.cfm?program=CORE&ctype=book&item_id=386 (470 words)

	Feminist Daily News 10/30/2003: UNFPA Urges End to Female Infanticide in India
		Thoraya Ahmed Obaid, the head of the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), urges the end of sex-selective abortion and infanticide in India.
		Some states have started public education campaigns, inspections and edicts from religious leaders to end female infanticide and sex-selective abortion.
		The Indian government conducted a study addressing the violations of Indian laws prohibiting sex selection that estimates that several million fetuses have been aborted in India over the past two decades because they were female, reports the New York Times.
	www.feminist.org /news/newsbyte/uswirestory.asp?id=8137 (408 words)

	Khaleej Times Online
		All over Rajasthan and the rest of India, baby girls are being eliminated either through sex-selective abortion or infanticide, according to a chilling report by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) released on Wednesday.
		Such women are subject to sexual and physical abuse, it added.
		Meanwhile the sex ratio imbalances coupled with the traditional low status of Indian women is also beginning to change traditional concepts of the family.
	www.khaleejtimes.com /displayArticle.asp?col=§ion=subcontinent&xfile=data/subcontinent/2005/October/subcontinent_October455.xml (614 words)

	Asia Observer - Ancient practice of dowry perpetuates violence against women in India
		In the worst-case scenario, the issues and expenses related to dowry make a daughter an undesirable addition to her family, which sometimes leads to female infanticide and sex-selective abortion.
		If these demands are unmet by the bride's family, the groom and his family sometimes are motivated to subject the bride to physical and psychological abuse.
		The heavy price of providing a dowry has proven to be a consideration for many families in their preference of sons over daughters.
	www.asiaobserver.com /India-story2.htm (1624 words)

	Culture Jam for Life : Infanticide
		Abortion-on-demand has led society to accept, in some terms, infanticide and murder of "defective" newborns, or even normal, unwanted ones.
		Two Senators, Barbara Boxer and Russ Feingold, have even defended infanticide on the Senate floor.
		In India, newborns are left to die if they are the wrong sex.
	www.neumanaddesign.com /culturejamforlife/infanticide (139 words)

	Academic Bets Terrorism Will Thrive in China with 30 Million Frustrated Bachelors
		Researcher Theodor Winkler said that infanticide and gender-specific abortion were the leading causes for the dearth of girls.
		This selective infanticide has contributed to a male-female gender gap of almost 17 percent; in some provinces, this gap is as high as 30 percent according to official census data for the year 2000.
		Having officially been a “great success, preventing at least 250 million births since 1980,” according to a Communist Party release, China’s horrendous one-child policy involving forced abortion and economic penalties for those who contravene the law was made permanent in 2000.
	www.lifesite.net /ldn/2005/dec/05120602.html (654 words)

	Women's History Month Events
		Through sex-selective abortion, abortion becomes synonymous with an anti-woman sentiment when abortion itself is and has always been fundamentally pro-woman.
		Sex-selective abortion, as perceived by the West, is abhorrent, because sex discrimination against girls in the West is perhaps more subtle.
		Additionally, sex-selective abortion is an offensive idea to us because it removes the essential significance of legal abortions.
	www.gwu.edu /~wstu/newsletter/spring98/history.htm (1447 words)

	Searchalot Directory for Top/Society/Issues/Family_Planning
		Washington Post article discusses the effects of China's one-child policies on sex-selective abortion, infanticide, and other practices that affect sex ratios.
		Review of statistics on the relationship of contraceptive use to abortion rates.
		Surveys in Great Britain, the Netherlands, Sweden and the U.S. identify factors determining the success of family planning in preventing adolescent pregnancy.
	www.searchalot.com /Top/Society/Issues/FamilyPlanning (606 words)

	SEAL Website
		'Gene-culture coevolution and sex ratios: The effects of infanticide, sex-selective abortion, sex selection, and sex-biased parental investment on the evolution of sex ratios'.
		'Primate innovation: sex, age and social rank differences'.
		'Sexual selection with a culturally transmitted mating preference'.
	www.st-andrews.ac.uk /~seal/publications.htm (1045 words)

	Gynecology Research - Physical and Sexual Abuse
		Overview of world-wide violence against women, including domestic violence, sexual abuse, trafficking, forced prostitution, debt bondage, sex selective abortion, female infanticide, deliberate neglect of girls, and rape in war.
		Report of a program for male teen sex offenders, where use of yoga, meditation and breathing exercises reduced stress, anxiety, sexual impulses and relapse.
		DV occurred in all groups, regardless of sex, ethnicity, age, or socioeconomic status.
	womensmindbodyhealth.info /abuse525B.htm (4886 words)

	:: Society :: Issues :: Family Planning
		In China's Countryside, 'It's a Boy!' Too Often - Washington Post article discusses the effects of China's one-child policies on sex-selective abortion, infanticide, and other practices that affect sex ratios.
		The Role of Contraception In Reducing Abortion - Review of statistics on the relationship of contraceptive use to abortion rates.
		Family Planning Law and China's Birth Control Situation - In an interview, State Family Planning Commission official explains the law and the population and family planning situation in the country.
	www.localadsearch.com /Society/Issues/Family_Planning (815 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)

Topic: Sex selective abortion and infanticide

Ads by Google

Related Topics

In the News (Tue 2 Dec 08)