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| | Sex-selective abortion: A relational approach |
 | | She claims that a sense of maternal powerlessness is also owing to "the fact and feeling of social impatience" that arises out of a mother's awareness of the power of economic and social policies directly to affect her and her children's lives without her input or control. | | | Instead, adopting a relational framework means that one is committed to exploring all aspects of the situation which contribute to the very definition of the situation as such and to exploring how these various aspects of the situation affect and are affected by the individuals with whom one is relating. | | | To perceive SSA as the only alternative to a life of misery, deprivation, and degradation for one's unborn child and one's family does not mean, however, that SSA is indeed the only alternative available. |
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http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/rt21/medicalization/WEISS_Sex-selective.html
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| | Sex-selective abortion and infanticide - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia |
| | If the biological parents want their infant child of an undesired sex out of their home but yet allow the infant to live, then they give away the child for adoption or export for foreign adoption. | | | Sex-selective infanticide appears to have been practiced at various times in Chinese history such as the Qing dynasty due to population pressures. | | | In addition, there does appear to be considerable sex-selective abandonment of infants to circumvent China's one child policy. |
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http://www.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sex-selective_abortion
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| | The Social Context of Sex Selection and the Politics of Abortion in India |
| | The expansion of medical technological in the service of sex selection threatens to concentrate our efforts in the area of advocating for restrictions, diverting political capital from changing the existing social structures and norms that encourage son preference and daughter neglect. | | | Overall, this body of research demonstrates quite conclusively that the low sex ratio can be attributed to the son preferential behavior on the part of the parents. | | | Sex bias in the family: Allocation of food and health care in rural Bangladesh. |
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http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/rt21/medicalization/BALAKRISHNANSocial_Context.html
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| | rediff.com: Bharat Jhunjhunwala on abortion and choice |
| | If a couple has an irresistible desire to have a child of a particular sex and is not able to overcome that desire, then it would be justified for them to have the foetus aborted. | | | Their choice is further expanded if they can select the sex of their child. | | | There can be different views of when exactly this transition takes place but the existence of such a point of transition is not disputed. |
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http://www.rediff.com/news/2001/apr/20bharat.htm
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| | e-Ethics May 2002 |
| | If, however, they disclose to some patients "nonmedical" information—such as the sex of a fetus when no related medical concern is present—and withhold similar information from other patients, they run the risk of acting in an arbitrary and unjustifiably discriminatory way. | | | A 1994 law banning the use of prenatal tests for sex determination has been only marginally effective in the face of traditional attitudes. | | | This sec-ond condition precludes aborting fetuses solely because of their sex. |
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| | Beloo Mehra's Blog - Beloo Mehra web blogs, Beloo Mehra blogger in India |
| | One member shared the story of a colleague in the US who was pressured by her in-laws to have an abortion when she found out the second child was a girl. | | | I would find it problematic when someone I know decides to abort because it would be a problem for her career, or because she wants to live a life without any responsibility -- but I would want that person to have the legal freedom to make that choice. | | | Further reading and analysis of our E-group's discussions led me to focus on those selected themes of the debate that are not fully explored in the current literature on this issue. |
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http://www.sulekha.com/column.asp?cid=305802
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| | CHINA: Beijing's ban on sex-selective abortion - 26 February 2005 |
| | India criminalised it to no effect: her sex imbalance at birth has not improved. | | | Is a preference for one sex over the other any worse a reason to have an abortion than convenience, or temporary physical or psychological discomfort? | | | China's infringement of choice is a classic example of how novel social experiments always create crises in which the government must intervene to solve. |
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http://www.newsweekly.com.au/articles/2005feb26_a.html
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| | II Journal: Son Preference and Premature Death in Korea |
| | Comparing fertility and mortality behavior of Koreans in Korea and China with the behavior of Chinese in China underlines the importance of the influence of cultural preferences in demographic behavior and calls into question the extent to which socio-economic development or governmental policies automatically lead to demographic change. | | | A very masculine sex ratio at birth has been observed in both Korea and China. | | | However, the use of sex-selective abortion in South Korea, which has no such policies, questions this interpretation. |
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http://www.umich.edu/~iinet/journal/vol4no1/sonpref.html
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| | China to ban sex-selective abortions - World - www.smh.com.au |
| | Despite a desire to curb the sex imbalance and a relaxation in recent years that allows rural families to have two children if the first is a girl, China has shown no sign of abandoning the one-child policy and cracks down on those who advocate against it. | | | Xinhua quoted experts as saying criminalising the ban would be a more effective deterrent, but it gave no details on what possible punishments might be. | | | Sex-selective abortion is already banned but technologies such as ultrasound have made it easier to know a baby's gender in advance, increasing the chances for aborting girls. |
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http://www.smh.com.au/news/World/China-to-ban-sexselective-abortions/2005/01/07/1104832293898.html
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| | ABORTION IS BAD KARMA: HINDU PERSPECTIVES |
| | Insisting that human life begins at conception, the anti-abortion movement seeks to shock us into the awareness that abortion means killing--killing a human being rather than an animal, a bird, an insect, or a fish. | | | We have to set an example and bring back the value of human life irrespective of the sexes. | | | It is important to note here that the karmic repercussions of abortion, grave though they may be, are not "punishments" in the sense of being the personal vengeance of a wrathful, judgmental God. |
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| | For India's daughters, a dark birth day csmonitor.com |
| | The reality, however, is that only about 15 percent of all abortions take place under such circumstances, according to the Indian Medical Association. | | | Government and the medical profession, he says, need to put more resources - and more political will - into strengthening and enforcing the laws. | | | The practice of sex-selective abortion has exacerbated India's gender imbalance. |
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| | Ban Sex-Selective Abortions |
| | In our progressive, rational, liberal-minded country, roughly 42 percent of all baby girls are aborted, whereas only 25 percent of all baby boys are aborted. | | | For the issue of sex-selective abortion, as for many other human rights issues, the largest hurdle to overcome is ignorance. | | | 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. |
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http://www.dartmouth.edu/~dcl/essays/sex-select.html
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| | Female Demographic Disadvantage in India 1981-1991 |
| | In China, practices such as kidnapping and sale of women, organized import of wives from other countries, etc., have been noted as a result of the shortage of women there. | | | Many medical practitioners feel that aborting a female is preferable to condemning an unwanted daughter to a lifetime of abuse, thus offering sex selection is a "humane" service they perform. | | | At the time of conducting this research, she was an Associate Fellow at the Centre for Development Studies, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala, India. |
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http://www.hsph.harvard.edu/organizations/healthnet/gender/docs/sudha.html
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| | Women's History Month Events |
| | Venkataraman’s group is making a great start in raising awareness about the issue of unwanted females. | | | With legal abortions, women have the power to take control of their own bodies and decide whether or not they wish to bear a child. | | | He wants her to abort the fetus, but she moans, "every eye accuses me," meaning she feels that the abortion would be against God and society. |
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| | Population Council News Release Prenatal Sex Determination and Sex-selective Abortion in Central China |
| | "More strenuous enforcement of the regulations forbidding prenatal sex determination and sex-selective abortion, and close monitoring of the uses of ultrasound B-scans at hospitals and family planning stations, particularly at private clinics, might change the situation," she says. | | | NEW YORK (12 July 2001) — Now that reliable technology for prenatal sex determination is widely available, there is concern that rural Chinese women may be using ultrasound B-scans to determine the sex of their fetus and ensure the birth of a boy. | | | The sex ratio of births reported by the women in the survey was much higher than the biological norm of about 105-107 males per 100 females. |
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| | China Travel Lodge - China bans selective abortion to fix imbalance |
| | Zhao blamed the imbalance on the traditional preference for boys, which remains strong in the countryside despite campaigns emphasising sex equality, and a poor rural social security system which forces people to become dependent on their children in old age. | | | The arrival of new technologies, especially ultrasound scanning, has made it possible for Chinese couples to know the sex of their unborn baby and, in many cases, have an abortion if it was a girl. | | | President Hu Jintao earlier this year said that bringing China's newborn sex ratio back to a normal level had become one of the country's important goals in the coming 10 years, Xinhua said. |
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| | SEX-SELECTIVE ABORTION RAMPANT IN CHINA |
| | Academics at the conference also warned of the dangers of the practice of sex selective abortions. | | | Private clinics and laboratories have sprung up everywhere to offer sex detection tests, even though doctors are supposedly forbidden by law from disclosing the sex of children in the womb. | | | Luo, a delegate to the conference revealed the situation in China saying: ``Quite a number of people, even very poor ones, would pay for tests so that they could abort their female offspring if they needed to''. |
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| | IFRL Daily News - Christian Science Monitor Examines Rise in Number of Sex-Selective Abortions in India, Resulting ... |
| | Although the government for "decades" has been aware of the practice of killing newborn girls, any progress in stemming that practice has been counterbalanced by an increase in the prevalence of sex-selective abortion, the Monitor reports. | | | Although some observers say that the government and doctors need to do a better job enforcing current laws banning infanticide and sex-selective abortions, others say that the trend will not change until women in India are empowered and traditional attitudes favoring male children fade (Girish, Christian Science Monitor, 2/9). | | | Now, many couples -- with the aid of medical technology, "weak" enforcement of laws banning abortion based on a fetus's gender and the cooperation of "unethical" physicians -- choose to terminate pregnancies if the fetus is female, worsening India& already "awkwardly skewed gender ratio," according to the Monitor. |
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| | Abortion Example Essays.com - Over 101,000 essays, term papers and book reports! |
| | Sex-selective abortion depends on the ability of a physician or technician to determine the sex of the fetus before birth, which is something that could not be done reliably before the invention of ultrasound, amniocentesis, and chorionic villus sampling. | | | To be more specific one author states in his journal “Factors Affecting Sex-Selective Abortions in India,” Dr. Retherford calls this type of Abortion in India exactly what the title states Sex-Selective Abortions. | | | Sex-Selective Abortions are an interesting topic, especially when I started to read the story about abortion in the India culture. |
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http://www.exampleessays.com/viewpaper/89554.html
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| | China Bans Sex-Selective Abortion |
| | Any individual or medical organization offering illegal sex-selective abortion services will take legal responsibility. | | | As a new measure, the commission will start drafting revisions to the Criminal Law in order to effectively ban foetus gender detection and selective abortion other than for legitimate medical purposes. | | | Family planning officials also plan to launch a "Care for Girls" public relations campaign to convince families to value girls as much as boys. |
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| | BBC NEWS Asia-Pacific China acts to protect baby girls |
| | A senior government official said that trafficking and abandonment of girls would be severely punished, and a ban on selective abortion reinforced. | | | Many parents abort baby girls, hoping to try again for a boy. | | | China says it will intensify its efforts to protect girls and address the gender imbalance of newborn babies. |
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| | Abortion is Bad Karma: Hindu Perspectives |
| | A frame capable browser can be downloaded from Netscape Communications or Microsoft. | | | Go to Abortion is Bad Karma: Hindu Perspectives. |
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