Sex Selection

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.

Sex selection: not as awful as you thought

Michael Cook | 16 December 2011

Bioethicist Timothy F. Murphy, at the University of Illinois College of Medicine at Chicago, argues in the journal Bioethics, that “the natural sex ratio cannot be a sound moral basis for prohibiting parents from selecting the sex of their children”. What he objects to is the notion that there exists a natural state of affairs which should not be changed.

Mothers may be forbidden from knowing sex of unborn baby in Europe: ruling

Jared Yee | 16 September 2011

Hospitals could be forbidden from telling expectant mothers the sex of their unborn babies, following a ruling in Europe.

New test reveals fetus’ sex as early as 7 weeks

Jared Yee | 12 August 2011

A new, highly accurate, blood test can determine a baby’s sex as early as 7 weeks into the pregnancy.

China pledges crackdown on sex-selective abortions

Jared Yee | 12 August 2011

China has vowed to strengthen measures to prevent sex-selective abortions and close a widening gender gap in a country that already has tens of millions more boys than girls.

Are Indian doctors turning girls into boys for parents who wanted a son?

Michael Cook | 09 July 2011

If you are looking for lurid consequences of India’s worsening gender ratio, look no longer. Millions of girls are missing, aborted because of a deeply entrenched preference for sons. The consequence shortage of women has reportedly led to practices like kidnapping brides and wife-sharing. But in the north India city of Indore in Madhya Pradesh something even more bizarre is happening, according to the Hindustan Times. Couples are paying surgeons to do sex change operations on infant girls to tr

Indian women go to US to use sex selection to have sons

Jared Yee | 18 June 2011

While India has a problem with sex selection, it is – technically speaking – illegal. According to a University of California study, under pressure to have sons, some Indian women emigrate to the US to make use of the more readily available reproductive technologies and liberal abortion policies.

Girls increasingly aborted in India: study

Jared Yee | 27 May 2011

Indian families with one girl are increasingly aborting subsequent pregnancies when prenatal tests show another female will be born, according to a new study published this week.india

UK hospital investigates sex selection claim

Jared Yee | 18 February 2011

Claims that fertility doctor offered a woman assistance in selecting her child’s sex

7-week sex detection pregnancy test now available

Michael Cook | 06 November 2010

Developed by Israeli doctors

Top IVF doctor defends helping parents pick babies’ sex

Jared Yee | 07 August 2010

Sex selection superdoc

Sex selection unlikely in Australia, says bioethicist

Michael Cook | 10 April 2010

Just a pre-emptive attempt to sway public opinion

Push to allow sex selection in Australia

Jared Yee | 20 March 2010

Regulations under review, although Federal minister is opposed

Google and Yahoo under attack for sex selection ads

Michael Cook | 05 December 2009

Dispute over scope of law