Today, the Chinese and Indian governments have laws to restrict or ban sex-selective abortion, but the practice continues illicitly. Few major international organizations have taken a stance, and there is almost no international action.
In some ways, perhaps, the most likely advocates for the world's missing girls are also
... the most hamstrung. Sex selection reveals deep gender discrimination. Yet the very women's rights advocates who might fight that discrimination are often the same people who've campaigned hard in the U.S. and elsewhere to secure a woman's right to choose her reproductive future. In the contentious debate over abortion rights, it's not easy to talk frankly about choices that would advance gender equality without risking an attack on any and all abortion choice.
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