Sentences with phrase «abort females»

I'd love to see how you're going to prove that women in other countries abort females just because they're female.

Foreign groups blame the one - child policy for encouraging couples who want sons to abort female unborn children or kill baby girls.

When reports that couples squeezed by the one - child policy were aborting female fetuses first trickled out of China in the early 1980s, it could hardly have been a surprise.

A decade of medical records from Ontario provide the strongest evidence yet that some Indian - born immigrants are selectively aborting female fetuses

As a result of the one - child Policy, many families began to selectively abort female children in order to try to have boys, who are traditionally preferred due to the cultural expectation that men will help support the family and take care of their parents in old age.

The centuries - old preference for boys, coupled with the millions of aborted female fetuses, puts China at the top of countries where boys outnumber girls.

Cultural practices like aborting female fetuses, female infanticide and the deprivation of nutrition to girls and women, which guarantees that millions of girls are never even born or mature to become second class citizens, needs to be incorporated into the human rights discourse and instruments.85

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no one is holding a gun to any females head saying you will abort this child.

If one believes, as I certainly do, that it is immoral to abort gay and female fetuses, that must be because there is some value in the expression of such a sexuality or such a gender.

Indian villagers have traditionally sought abortions for female fetuses; perhaps parents and societies will seek to abort fetuses with a gay gene.

[2][5] India's 2011 census shows a serious decline in the number of girls under the age of seven — activists believe eight million female fetuses may have been aborted between 2001 and 2011.

Portraying the individual choice to abort in this way, as a step toward freedom for the entire human race, invites women to see the sorrow they feel about their own abortions as part of a false consciousness instilled by a society determined to repress female sexuality.

This method can also be used to discriminate between genders, which usually entails the aborting of female fetuses.

In countries like China and India, parents indicate their preference for male over female children by selective abortions (allowed by pre-natal screening), which abort a disproportionate number of female fetuses.

The policy, meanwhile, has created a population swollen with tens of million «surplus» men from sex - selective abortions — pregnant women used ultrasound to scan the sex of the fetus and aborted if it was female.

All male fetuses missing the X chromosome — the syndrome's underlying cause — are spontaneously aborted, as are 97 % of female fetuses, which have a backup copy of the sex chromosome.

Oral infection as a result of ingestion of aborted feti, mammary secretions, placental tissues of vaginal discharges of infected female is most frequent a mode of transmission.