Current Legal Topics: Sex Selection & Abortion in Australia, Canada, India, and New ZealandThis report from the Law Library of Congress provides an analysis of laws on the subject of sex selection and abortion in Australia, Canada, India, and New Zealand.
Sex determination, and the selective abortion of fetuses, is widespread in some countries. In the past, this may have been due to permissive abortion laws, which in some circumstances led to abortion being used for sex selection. After abortion laws were tightened, technological innovation revolutionized medicine, with prenatal diagnosis being one such area. This new technology has immense potential to allow parents to avoid genetically oriented problems, but its use has had the effect of making it relatively easy for parents to opt for abortion as a means of sex selection when the parents did not wish to have a child of a particular sex.
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