Researchers contend sex-selection abortions are reducing female births, and some of that is occurring in the United States.
Female babies are being aborted largely by Asian immigrant families in America, based on the age-old cultural prejudices in their home countries. Bill Saunders of Family Research Council is saddened but not surprised.
"We know that around the world in countries of their origin there is a fair amount of sex-selection abortion, in India and China in particular," he notes.
Saunders also notices the irony of the situation. "Pro-life people are often accused of being anti-woman," he points out. "The fact of the matter is legalized abortion is resulting in the disappearance of what demographers call the 'girl child' around the world because a lot of potential parents are using medical technology to abort the girls."
These women, according to Saunders, receive sonograms to determine the baby's sex and often choose to abort the baby if it is a girl. He adds that there is nothing illegal about that process. "Here in America you can have an abortion any time and for any reason, except partial-birth abortion," he says.
Saunders believes sex-selection abortion is especially prevalent among the immigrant groups if they have had a girl first, and then want only a boy for the second child.
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