India Confronts Practice of Gender-Selective Abortion
by Amanda Cunningham
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All Things Considered, March 21, 2006 ยท The medical journal The Lancet, reports that there have been 10 million "missing female births" in India in the past 20 years. By "missing," that means females who were aborted. Activists are trying to stop the practice, which is as prevalent in wealthy areas as it is in poor areas.
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