By Michael Cook Sex selection is on the agenda in Australia. The National Health and Medical Research Council (NHMRC) has called for public comment on new guidelines for IVF clinics. The most contentious change involves removing a ban on destroying embryos because...
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Pro-abortion NGOs: Right to Abortion Above Girls’ Right to Life
Editor’s note. This appeared on the webpage of the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues (PNCI). Asia-based NGOs hosted a meeting in New Delhi to discuss the impact of efforts to reduce sex selective abortion on access to abortion. The discussion led by Asia Safe...
Prime Minister launches “selfie” campaign against sex-selection abortion by promoting equality in India
By Dave Andrusko We’ve written dozens of articles about sex-selection abortions in India. While prenatal testing for gender is illegal, there have been very few prosecutions. And because sex-selection abortions are so very widespread, “India’s child sex ratio has...
Hoisted on Her Own Petard, and Mad as a Hornet about it
By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. I’ve argued many times in this space that the consciousness-raising capacity of sex-selection abortion is never, ever to be underestimated. Killing babies because they are the “wrong” sex (almost always because they are female) flies in...
Woman: I aborted 18 baby girls to give my husband the son he wanted
By Nancy Flanders Most of us don’t pay much attention to the issue of sex-selective abortion – either because we think it doesn’t affects us, or because we don’t realize how widespread it is and how much it is affecting our world. But its impact reaches far and wide,...
New UN Report Warns of Dangers of Prenatal Sex Selection, massive loss of female babies
Editor’s note. The following analysis was provided by the Parliamentary Network for Critical Issues. A new report by UNFPA's office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia reveals that an estimated 171,000 girls are 'missing' in South Caucasus and parts of South-East...
Abortionist willing to perform sex-selection abortion in Great Britain may lose license
By Dave Andrusko If you are a NRL News Today reader who has read many or most of the over 20 stories we’ve written on sex selection abortions in Great Britain, you will not be surprised that the latest developments may be ambivalent, at best. Last week The General...
British CPS blocks prosecutions of abortionists caught on tape agreeing to sex-selection abortions
By Dave Andrusko In an incredible, albeit not unexpected, turn of events, Britain’s Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) has potentially opened the door to sex-selection abortion on demand. In 2013, the CPS decided it “was not in the public interest” to prosecute two...
Behind the failure of an amendment to specify that sex-selective abortions are not legal in Great Britain
By Dave Andrusko We have two posts today that are a struggle to put together. Not because the issues at hand—sex-selective abortions in Great Britain and a court decision throttling a woman-helping center in San Francisco—are unclear or particularly complicated but...
A “significant drop” in sex-selective abortions in India and Nepal
Follows decision by Supreme Court of India By Dave Andrusko Editor’s note. This appeared on in the current digital edition of National Right to Life News, “the pro-life newspaper of record.” You can read this story and the issue in its entirety at...