“A study published last year in The Lancet said sex selection of fetuses in India led to 7.1 million fewer girls than boys up to age six, a gender gap that had grown by more than a million in a decade. The 1996 law designed to prevent the use of ultrasound for prenatal sex tests is widely flouted in India.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/07/18/india-suspends-doctors-over-banned-fetal-sex-tests/
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