Distorted Sex Ratios: Gendercide in Canada

The Economist:

"CREATE the family you want: boy or girl," ran an advertisement for the Washington Centre for Reproductive Medicine, an American clinic located two hours' drive south of the Canadian border. Using in vitro fertilisation to select the sex of a child is illegal in Canada, and the ad was soon withdrawn. But for a while it ran in the Indo-Canadian Voice, a newspaper for South Asian migrants.

Sex selection is overwhelmingly associated with China and India. But it may be spreading to rich countries, too. A study published in the Canadian Medical Association Journal (CMAJ) on April 16th looked at 767,000 births in Ontario province from 2002-07 and checked them against the mother's country of origin.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 10, 2012 3:19 AM
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