Here’s Why that Race-Sex Abortion Ban Bill is So Discriminatory

You may have never heard of the word PRENDA. But the U.S. House of Representatives Judiciary Committee held a hearing on it on April 14.

PRENDA stands for the Prenatal Nondiscrimination Act of 2016.

If enacted, the bill would subject medical professionals to up to five years imprisonment for performing an abortion on a woman who wants to abort the fetus because of its race or sex. A similar bill was defeated in the House of Representatives in 2012.

Sex-selective bans have been introduced in over half of the state legislatures in the United States and have been passed by eight of those legislatures. But in addition to banning sex-selective bans, this federal bill reaches further, banning race-selective abortions as well.

Arizona is the only state to ban race-selective abortions. Eight other states and the United States Congress have considered and rejected race-selective bans.

The rationale behind sex-selective abortion bans is tied to countries such as India and China.It is widely known that there is a male-surplus in India and China and it is attributed to...