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Rajenda Kale<\/h4>\n\n\n
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When Asians migrated to Western countries they brought welcome recipes for curries and dim sum. Sadly, a few of them also imported their preference for having sons and aborting daughters. Female feticide happens in India and China by the millions, but it also happens in North America in numbers large enough to distort the male to female ratio in some ethnic groups.1<\/a>\u2013<\/sup>4<\/a> Should female feticide in Canada be ignored because it is a small problem localized to minority ethnic groups? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Kale R. “It’s a girl!” could be a death sentence.<\/a> CMAJ January 16, 2012, doi: 10.1503\/cmaj.120021<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Rajenda Kale ExtractWhen Asians migrated to Western countries they brought welcome recipes for curries and dim sum. Sadly, a few of them also imported their preference for having sons and aborting daughters. Female feticide happens in India and China by the millions, but it also happens in North America in numbers large enough to distort … Continue reading ““It’s a girl!” could be a death sentence.”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,554,2],"tags":[657,1054],"post_folder":[],"class_list":["post-10616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-abortion","category-ethics","category-journal-article","tag-rajenda-kale","tag-sex-selection"],"yoast_head":"\r\n"It's a girl!" could be a death sentence. - Protection of Conscience Project Library<\/title>\r\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"Female feticide occurs in India & China by the millions, and in North America can distort the male\/female ratio in some ethnic groups\" \/>\r\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, 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