Cheap ultrasound sex identification drives sex-selective abortion in India

Evidence

Serial dramas set in India, which has almost 1.3 billion people, address the myriad ways in which women are marginalized and denied educational aspirations. A strong cultural gender bias exists in India. Radiologists offer cheap ultrasound tests in villages to identify female fetuses, some of which are aborted. This practice has produced a growing imbalance of females to males, a practice that already is having huge social consequences. — Albert Bandura, Moral Disengagement, 2903

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Category: Factual Claims

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