Sex-selective abortion

Feminist Approaches to Sex-Selective Reproductive Technologies in the East and West The use of prenatal diagnostic technologies to detect for sex prior to having a sex-selective abortion (SSA) is a contentious topic amongst feminists, reproductive rights advocates, anti-abortion activists, and anyone concerned with gendered discrimination. As Shivana Jorawar and Miriam Yeung reveal in Wolves in Sheep’s Clothing: The Impact of Sex-selective Abortion Bans on Asian American and Pacific Islander…

Ultrasounds allow for individuals to view the sex of the fetus prior to birth. In developing nations, ultrasound examinations are required of expecting mothers. If the baby were to be a girl, the pregnancy would immediately be terminated. Because these machines allow mothers to view the sex of the child while still in the womb, it has lead to an increase in gender feticide. As stated in the “It’s a girl documentary”…

(2007), Government regulations and policies against gender discrimination and sex-selective abortion, The Chinese government has also adopted a series of active regulations and policies against pre-natal sex determination and sex-selective abortion, in response to the rise in SRB. All organizations and individuals are strictly forbidden from performing non-medical foetal sex determination and sex-selective induced abortion (P.…

wrap my head, because I was raised in such a different scenario and environment and I can't imagine a world with such patriarchal ways. The sex ratios in cities like Lianyungang, where the “government statisticians have found 163 boys for every 100 girls under age five” shocked me and that was something that really stuck with me (23). The idea that abortion is common in countries like China and India really makes me contemplate on how different the values and cultures are in the United States.…

nineteen-eighties, female factory workers were forced to show their stained menstrual napkins to prove they weren’t pregnant” (Demick). Although China has gone along way to make revisions to the One-Child Policy, there needs to be an end to sex-selective abortions in rural areas through propaganda that promotes the value of females. Currently, China’s government is ruled by the Communist Party, which mainly consists of obedient elites. The group decided to pass a detrimental policy after Mao’s…

perspectives when examining this topic, but an ethical view is one of the most important because many people question whether or not it is acceptable for the government to interfere with such personal matters. Due to the policy there are distorted sex ratios, a large elderly population, violations of women’s rights, and practices that are harmful to women’s health. Since the implementation of the one-child policy, China has experienced…

Abortion In our society we have become stupendously crazed with rights, as well as being politically correct. Whether talking about domestic pets or wild animals, there will be a tremendous out cry if they are hurt or treated badly. Even with all of this the unborn child is not protected. Instead of looking at abortion as the solution for an unwanted pregnancy, I believe a person should be looking for the solution to abortion. In the modern world we live in today, there are many different…

India infanticide has and is a big topic in India for many decades. It is the killing of girls using selective gender techniques. Whether it would be infanticide or abortion because of economic, financial burden when she gets married, and for spiritual rights that only men can do these were all old Indian ways. India needs to make more laws and new regulatory agencies to enforce these rules and procedures. They do not enforce their own laws now and with no agency, nothing is being done to solve…

On September 25, 1980, the Chinese Communist Party established a one-child policy (“History of the One-Child Policy”). The one-child policy indicated that the ethnic majority, Han Chinese, were only allowed to have one child per family. The policy also included regulations regarding the size of the family and late marriages (Hesketh). Late marriages where considered marriages between a women who were 23 years old or older and men who were 25 years old or older. The policy was first presented by…

The Link Between Genetic Screening and Abortion Pregnancy screenings are essential to providing adequate care for pregnant mothers and fetuses. According to the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) (2014b), several screenings are now recommended as routine prenatal care for all pregnant women. Health care providers may use the information obtained from screenings to identify and manage any complications that may arise during pregnancy or birth. One such routine screening…