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Now this is a unique problem. In some areas, there are more boys being born than girls. For instance, as reported by the LA Times, the ratio in certain rural Chinese provinces is 130 boys to 100 girls and 125 to 100 in India. Of course, these two nations are not the only two faced with this dilemma.

Why is this happening? Basically, people who want a male child submit themselves to what is called high-tech sex-selection or sex-selection abortion. The Center for Genetics and Society defined sex-selection as “the use of technologies to choose the sex of a future child, usually in conjunction with in-vitro fertilization (IVF),” and sex-selective abortion or infanticide as the practice of aborting a fetus after using a “prenatal diagnosis to detect sex,” so thereafter “a person could choose not to have a child based on the sex of the fetus and opt for an abortion.” Reasons can be traced back to religious, cultural and even linguist influences. Due to these influences, many put heavy emphasis on having a male child. And even though many...