Abortion Case Study

This type of abortion is directly related to the social standards, usually sex selection does not pursue therapeutic purposes but economic. Couples prefer to have sons and some are willing to undergo treatments of assisted fertilization to ensure a child, not for health reasons but for economic, political or cultural reasons. In 1990, the article published by Amartya Sen entitled "More than 100 million women are missing", referring to the absence of women in Asia caused by infanticide and female feticide, captured public attention and since then the issue has been studied by many authors. In this article, two cases will briefly discuss, India and China.
In India, the deficit of women is quite well known and the reasons for this phenomenon

This Law (No. 57), stipulates that no center of genetic counselling, laboratory or clinical practice prenatal diagnostic techniques with different objectives to the detection of chromosomal abnormalities, genetic diseases metabolic, genetic diseases linked to sex and congenital abnormalities among others. To be able to carry out these studies the pregnant woman should have more than 35 years, have suffered two or more miscarriages, having been exposed to agents potentially teratogens as drugs, radiation, infections or chemical agents, having a family history of mental retardation or physically deformed or genetic and, if after having covered with the aforementioned, the diagnosis is practiced, under no circumstance is you will inform to her or to their family of the sex of the baby or verbally or by signs or of any another

C. by Han Feizi. During decades was achieved to manipulate information about the lack of girls in China, at the beginning it was said that the parents hid, literally, to their daughters of population censuses, since these indicated that the rate of births was normal between boys and girls; however, shortly after it became clear that the deaths in girls increased with each year of life, gradually reducing its proportion.
One of the reasons to avoid having a daughter, especially in rural areas, is that the male has more physical strength and therefore can play, do, and work more activities more demanding, what is projected in economic matters to the family. The conditions which should cover a couple to have a second child are set forth in each province, but nearly all agree that the first birth has been a girl, the second child born at least four years after the first, that the woman has more than 28 years of age and that both parents are, at the same time, only