Gendercide

Crackdown on illegal abortions restores Taiwan sex ratio

Jared Yee | 03 February 2012

Last year, Taiwanese health authorities moved to crack down on illegal abortions, warning that doctors found guilty of the practice could have their licenses revoked. They announced on Tuesday that tougher oversight on illegal gender-selective abortions prevented almost 1,000 terminations of female foetuses last year.

Canadian journal calls for curbs on aborting girls

Michael Cook | 18 January 2012

After a long legal and political debate leading up to a decision by its Supreme Court in 1988, Canada has ended up as one of the few nations in the world without an abortion law. About 100,000 abortion are performed each year. But now the Canadian Medical Association Journal is calling for strict limits on abortion – if the mother wants to abortion a child simply because it is a girl.

India’s bad sex ratio worsens

Michael Cook | 02 April 2011

Early returns for the 2011 census shows that the number of girls to 1,000 boys has shrunk to 914 girls to every 1000 boys, down from 927 in 2001.