Sex Selection

India's disappearing daughters: Child sex ratios continue to plummet all over the country

Studies now indicate that hitherto relatively unaffected Indian states now have also got plunging child sex ratios.

How China's one child policy has led to decades of forced abortions, infanticide

Many experts say China urgently needs a baby boom to help replenish its workforce and shoulder the costs of an aging population.

Asians in UK 'gendercide' row: Importing regressive practices?

An estimated 200,000 abortions are carried out in England and Wales every year prompting criticism that it is "available on demand".

Behind Gurgaon's high growth and literacy, a shockingly low sex ratio

With 854 girls per 1000 boys, Gurgaon district reported the lowest sex ratio in the state, even as it attained maximum literacy rate 84.7 per cent- belying conventional wisdom that education creates social progress.

Chargesheet filed against Beed doctors for illegal abortions

A chargesheet has been filed in a local court against two doctors for allegedly aborting foetuses illegally at their hospital, police said on Thursday.